Inquiry regarding AleRax license and Galaxy Europe integration

[Deepti varshney]

Hello, 

I just wanted to say thanks for developing AleRax. It is a very useful tool. I am currently using it for one of my projects and have found it extremely valuable.

I am part of the Galaxy Europe team, and I was wondering if it would be okay to integrate AleRax into the Galaxy platform to make it more accessible to users.

I also noticed that there is no license file in the GitHub repo. In the paper, it mentions GNU GPL, so I just wanted to confirm that. If possible, it might be helpful to add the license to the repository as well.

I think integrating AleRax into Galaxy could help increase its visibility and make it easier for others to use.

Thanks again for your work, and I would be happy to hear your thoughts!

Best, 

Deepti

[Noah Wahl]

Hello Deepti,

Integrating AleRax into Galaxy sounds like a great idea. I have recently made another tool available on Galaxy, although with much less parameters than AleRax. As far as I understand, we first need to make AleRax available on bioconda?

I will also take care of including a license file in the repository. We would appreciate your input on best practices when building the AleRax wrapper for Galaxy.

Best,

Noah

[Deepti varshney]

Hello Noah,

Thanks for your reply! Great to hear you are open to this!

Yes, making AleRax available via Bioconda would definitely be a good first step, as it simplifies installation and integration within Galaxy. I am currently working on a Galaxy workflow for phylogenetic analysis, where I’ve been using AleRax as a separate step after the main pipeline. If we integrate AleRax into Galaxy, I can include it directly in the workflow and make the whole process easier and complete within the platform.

I would be happy to start working on the wrapper for the Galaxy tool integration for AleRax. Once I have a first draft of the wrapper ready, we could review it together and refine it in line with best practices.

Thanks also for taking care of adding the license file; that will be very helpful.

Looking forward to collaborating on this!

Best,

Deepti