Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

Developing a Galaxy tool

Galaxy is mostly a very advanced workflow engine with an easy-to-use interface. Concrete work is delegated to tools. Here, we will learn how to develop a basic tool. The fundamental objective of this chapter is to demonstrate how easy it is to develop a tool; it might seem daunting, but really it is not. The Galaxy developers made sure that all the boilerplate work is done by a tool called Planemo (https://planemo.readthedocs.io). Planemo is very well-documented, and this recipe should be seen as a starting point; Planemo's documentation is the end point. Again, our main objective here is to gain confidence that tool development is accessible for all who want to do it.