Galaxy is "an open, web-based platform for performing accessible, reproducible, and transparent genomic science."
Galaxy provides a way to generate scientific workflows including data integration, and analysis persistence. It could be considered as a publishing platform making computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming skills. Although it was initially developed for genomics research, it is largely domain agnostic and is now used as a general bioinformatics workflow management system.
ABiMS provides http://webtools.sb-roscoff.fr, a Galaxy instance that hosts tools developped at the Station Biologique de Roscoff in collaboration with the plateform:
Cyanorak Blast: Blast query sequences on Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus strains (blastn, blastp, blastx, tblastn, tblastx). [webpage]
Hectar: Predict subcellular targeting for heterokont proteins.
MicRhoDE workflow: places query sequences into MicRhoDE tree (type-1 rhodopsin phylogeny). [webpage]
Renkan BLAST: blast query sequences to 18S and 28S radiolaria databases (blastn). [webpage]
WiseScaffolder: genome scaffolding of pre-assembled contigs using mate-pair data. [webpage]
Since 2020, ABiMS leads actively and promotes the French National Galaxy instance: https://usegalaxy.fr. This instance, maintained by the IFB, aims to gather several lab scale Galaxy instances.
ABiMS is also part of the project Workflow4Metabolomics which proposes a dedicated Galaxy instance to analyse LC-MS, GS-MS and NMR data.
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