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David López Tabernero

University of Freiburg

GCC 2024

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This talk is about…

  • Showcase of (yet another) VSCode Extension
  • Helps editing Galaxy Workflow documents
  • Side project for fun + learning + contribution to the community

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Disclaimer

Not a workflow expert/developer myself 🤷

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The challenge

Publishing high quality best practices workflows can be hard

Workflows are essential for reproducible data analysis

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How does the Galaxy community tackle these challenges?

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Why do we need this “extension thing” then?

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🤔

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Because you can always have one more friend! 🎉

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(Real) Motivation Use Case

IWC Repository Reviewers/Maintainers

Wolfgang Maier

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Introducing

A Visual Studio Code extension that can work in your browser

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Feature Overview

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Format2

Supports both

Galaxy workflow document formats

Aka. gxformat2

YAML

+ Human friendly

Native original format

JSON

Rather Internal

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Tests Documents

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Docs on Hover

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Context-aware suggestions

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Document Validation

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Validation Profiles

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Outline and Breadcrumbs

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Workflow Tests Documents

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Cleanup Command (.ga)

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Try it now directly on GitHub!

  1. Go to the IWC GitHub repository (you need to be logged into GitHub)
    1. Ideally, go to your own fork
  2. Press “.” in your keyboard to access the github.dev web-based editor
  3. Install the Galaxy Workflows Extension

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  • Enjoy the ✨magic✨ directly in your browser

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Conclusion

Useful for…

Experimental

Much more!

IWC Maintainers

Instant validation

Works in browser!

Some things might not work as expected yet…

Please report!

More features coming soon™

Propose your own!

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Thank you! Questions?

Live demo during poster session this afternoon!

https://github.com/davelopez/galaxy-workflows-vscode