We’ve updated our Galaxy server to version 18.09. Everything went extremely smoothly.

Galaxy Upgrade

Our previous Galaxy upgrade we scheduled an entire day for potential downtime, and completed it with a 2 hour outage of Galaxy. For this downtime we scheduled 4 hours of downtime and completed it without a Galaxy outage.

For a full list of the awesome new features please see the release notes

A few highlights (in no particual order)!

• Workflows saw many enhancements:
  • You can now run a workflow directly from the “Published Workflows” list
  • The workflow editor supports zooming
  • You can download a workflow directly from the editor (Thanks Anup!)
• Subworkflows now allow for setting runtime parameters
• When pasting data or URLs into the Galaxy upload screen, you can now supply a name for this dataset rather than always having to change it afterwards.
• The rule-based data uploader now supports adding tags to your datasets and collections.
• Tool search should be working better

If you notice any issues, please do not hesitate to let us know