Mercurial > repos > fubar > brokenandnotdeletablebyowneroradmin
changeset 3:42e85c24570f
updates to README
| author | ross lazarus ross.lazarus@gmail.com |
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| date | Thu, 31 May 2012 09:39:34 +1000 |
| parents | d95513e50c92 |
| children | 3755b2365fb0 |
| files | README.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README.txt Thu May 31 09:35:18 2012 +1000 +++ b/README.txt Thu May 31 09:39:34 2012 +1000 @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ -Motivation: Simple transformation, filtering or reporting scripts get written, run and lost every day in most busy labs - even ours where Galaxy is in use. This 'dark script matter' runs outside Galaxy and without manual effort to curate is often not reproducable. - - After a lot of nagging about how hard it was to create new wrappers for trivial scripts, I wrote a new Galaxy tool (see the source tab) locked down to allow only two other trusted bioinformatician users to paste and run (NO sandbox!) arbitrary scripts - see screenshot attached. Note that this tool allows unrestricted access as user Galaxy so should be restricted to admin users who could run rm -rf from a command line if they wanted to but can be trusted not to! +After a lot of nagging about how hard it was to create new wrappers for trivial scripts, I wrote a new Galaxy tool (see the source tab) locked down to allow only two other trusted bioinformatician users to paste and run (NO sandbox!) arbitrary scripts - see screenshot attached. Note that this tool allows unrestricted access as user Galaxy so should be restricted to admin users who could run rm -rf from a command line if they wanted to but can be trusted not to! For our group, this allows Galaxy to fill that important gap - all those "small" bioinformatics tasks - because once a trusted user has a working R (or python or perl) script that takes parameters the way Galaxy supplies them (see example below), they: