- CPT Galaxy Blast Database Updates September 2, 2015 - Howdy y’all, We’ve updated NR and NT blast databases to the latest versions, and we’ve added a new database: Uniprot! Happy blasting!
- New CPT Galaxy Instance, Now Available! August 9, 2015 - Up until now the CPT has been running two separate Galaxy instances, one for our internal use with our full swath of tools, and one for public use with a reduced tool set. We have now merged these instances into a single one, available to everyone! https://cpt.tamu.edu/galaxy-pub/ If you are a legacy user, please migrateLearn More...
- New CPT Galaxy Instance, Summer 2015 February 23, 2015 - Up until now the CPT has been running two separate Galaxy instances, one for our internal use with our full swath of tools, and one for public use with a reduced tool set. We will be merging these two instances, to better provide for all of our users. This means that as CPT Internal Galaxy Users, toolsLearn More...
- ClustalW MSA and Visualisations February 10, 2015 - The ClustalW alignment tool is now available in Galaxy, as are a way to easily visualise the resulting alignment. Start by loading up a fasta file of interest (or importing our example history) and running the ClustalW tool that’s available under “Fetch Alignments” Once you’ve loaded up the ClustalW tool, you’llLearn More...
- Galaxy FAQ: Ever needed a question answered? January 8, 2015 - Find yourself with Galaxy usage questions? I’m collecting questions and writing a FAQ, send them in to esr@tamu.edu!
- InterProScan Updated in Galaxy September 30, 2014 - InterProScan has been updated to the latest and great; version 5.7 and database version 48.0 Additionally, at this time SignalP and TMHMM analyses have been enabled in InterProScan. Phobius is currently broken.
- BlastN Database Added to Galaxy August 25, 2014 - The BlastN database has been added to galaxy to enable researchers to do BlastN and Megablast queries more easily. This should help users wishing to assemble genomes to align the contigs they’ve received against full length genomes from NCBI. Try it out now!
- CPT Server Rebuild August 4, 2014 - The CPT server was recently (2014-08-01) rebuilt from the ground up. Thanks to Puppet this was a very easy process as all of the server configuration was stored and could easily be “replayed”. After this spring’s OpenSSL Heartbleed attacks, and all of the old code that was lingering around on our server, we’re looking forwardLearn More...
- NCBI Caudovirales Data Library July 24, 2014 - Sometimes you find yourself wishing to do large scale analysis of caudovirales, or a specific suptype of them. I have added a data library in galaxy, containing all 1200 odd phages known to NCBI as of 2014-07-24. You can find this data library by clicking “Shared Data -> Data Libraries” at the top menu. DataLearn More...
- Migrated to HTCondor Backend July 15, 2014 - tl;dr, I can get updates to your tools to you all more quickly. Despite configuration files to the contrary, and significant amounts of documentation suggesting that LocalRunners are OK to use, during a personal conversation one of the developers was horrified to learn that people use it in production instances. Given that I have knowledgeLearn More...