Galaxy
Last updated 2020-11-26 for Galaxy v20.09
| Documentation | ❌ |
| How-Tos | ❌ |
| Install guides | ⚠️ |
| GUI | ✅ |
| CLI | ️❌ |
| Demo | ❌ |
| Local install | ⚠️ |
| Cluster | ⚠️ |
| Cloud | ⚠️ |
| Complex setup | ️✅ |
| Complex use | ️✅ |
| CWL version | Unknown |
🚧 - Work-in-progress
✅ - Support
❌ - No support
⚠️ - Complicated
Overview
Related links:
- Galaxy Project
- Galaxy Github
- Galaxy Install Docs
- CWL Galaxy Source code
- Galaxy on a Cluster Docs
- Galaxy in the cloud Galaxy is a workflow language in its own right. As such support for CWL is secondary and manily provided through separate community support.
Documentation
Documentation? No
Galaxy has comprehensive documentation on how to use and install, but no documentation related to how to support or use CWL on galaxy.
How to guides
How to guides? No
Galaxy has good documentation but lacks any information on how to run a CWL workflows.
Install Guides
Install guides? Complicated, not obvious for CWL Galaxy
Galaxy has instructions to get Galaxy setup and installed, and this only requires a few steps. The is no documentation available on how to configure Galaxy to support CWL There is a galaxy with CWL repository and the instructions to install galaxy from source can be used with this as the source code to install Galaxy, but no support is given.
Features
GUI / Web interface
GUI? Yes
Command Line
Command Line? No
Demo
Demonstration platform available? No
Environment
Single Machine
Run on a single machine? Yes
Galaxy by default will run on a single machine.
Cluster
Run on a cluster? Yes, but not clear if possible for CWL Galaxy
Galaxy can be configured to run on a cluster. Training material on how to configure this is provided here. Again this is for Galaxy without CWL, but by using the CWL Galaxy repository an install may be possible.
Cloud
Run on the cloud? Yes, but not clear if possible for CWL Galaxy
Galaxy has instructions for how to install and deploy on the cloud. Whether this applies to CWL galaxy is unknown.
Installing
Is the install process complex? Yes
Installing Galaxy has few steps and good documentation. It is not clear how to install CWL Galaxy and whether the same steps can be followed with the exception of changing the source repository to CWL Galaxy.