Galaxy Portal: interacting with the galaxy platform through mobile devices

Claus Børnich; Ivar Grytten; Eivind Hovig; Jonas Paulsen; Martin Čech; Geir Kjetil Sandve

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw042

Galaxy Portal: interacting with the galaxy platform through mobile devices

Bioinformatics. 2016 Jun 1;32(11):1743-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw042. Epub 2016 Jan 27.

Authors

Claus Børnich¹, Ivar Grytten¹, Eivind Hovig², Jonas Paulsen¹, Martin Čech³, Geir Kjetil Sandve¹

Affiliations

¹ Biomedicial Informatics, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
² Biomedicial Informatics, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Tumor Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway, Department of Cancer Genetics and Informatics, Radium Hospital, Part of Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway and.
³ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Abstract

: We present Galaxy Portal app, an open source interface to the Galaxy system through smart phones and tablets. The Galaxy Portal provides convenient and efficient monitoring of job completion, as well as opportunities for inspection of results and execution history. In addition to being useful to the Galaxy community, we believe that the app also exemplifies a useful way of exploiting mobile interfaces for research/high-performance computing resources in general.

Availability and implementation: The source is freely available under a GPL license on GitHub, along with user documentation and pre-compiled binaries and instructions for several platforms: https://github.com/Tarostar/QMLGalaxyPortal It is available for iOS version 7 (and newer) through the Apple App Store, and for Android through Google Play for version 4.1 (API 16) or newer.

Contact: geirksa@ifi.uio.no.

MeSH terms

Mobile Applications*
Software

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding