Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Genome Res. 2023 Feb;33(2):261-268. doi: 10.1101/gr.276963.122. Epub 2023 Feb 24.
There are thousands of well-maintained high-quality open-source software utilities for all aspects of scientific data analysis. For more than a decade, the Galaxy Project has been providing computational infrastructure and a unified user interface for these tools to make them accessible to a wide range of researchers. To streamline the process of integrating tools and constructing workflows as much as possible, we have developed Planemo, a software development kit for tool and workflow developers and Galaxy power users. Here we outline Planemo's implementation and describe its broad range of functionality for designing, testing, and executing Galaxy tools, workflows, and training material. In addition, we discuss the philosophy underlying Galaxy tool and workflow development, and how Planemo encourages the use of development best practices, such as test-driven development, by its users, including those who are not professional software developers.
有数千个维护良好的高质量开源软件实用程序，可用于科学数据分析的各个方面。十多年来，Galaxy 项目一直在为这些工具提供计算基础设施和统一的用户界面，以使它们能够被广泛的研究人员使用。为了尽可能简化集成工具和构建工作流程的过程，我们开发了 Planemo，这是一个面向工具和工作流程开发人员以及 Galaxy 高级用户的软件开发工具包。在这里，我们概述了 Planemo 的实现，并描述了它在设计、测试和执行 Galaxy 工具、工作流程和培训材料方面的广泛功能。此外，我们还讨论了 Galaxy 工具和工作流程开发背后的理念，以及 Planemo 如何鼓励其用户（包括非专业软件开发人员）使用开发最佳实践，例如测试驱动开发。
