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Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming experience. Although it was initially developed for genomics research, it is largely domain agnostic and is now used as a general bioinformatics workflow management system.〔https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/PublicGalaxyServers〕 == Functionality == Galaxy is a scientific workflow system. These systems provide a means to build multi-step computational analyses akin to a recipe. They typically provide a graphical user interface for specifying what data to operate on, what steps to take, and what order to do them in. Galaxy is also a data integration platform for biological data. It supports data uploads from the user's computer, by URL, and directly from many online resources (such as the UCSC Genome Browser, (BioMart ) and InterMine). Galaxy supports a range of widely used biological data formats, and translation between those formats. Galaxy provides a web interface to many text manipulation utilities, enabling researchers to do their own custom reformatting and manipulation without having to do any programming. Galaxy includes ''interval manipulation'' utilities for doing set theoretic operations (e.g. intersection, union, ...) on intervals. Many biological file formats include genomic interval data (a frame of reference, e.g., chromosome or contig name, and start and stop positions), allowing these data to be integrated. Galaxy was originally written for biological data analysis, particularly genomics. The set of available tools has been greatly expanded over the years and Galaxy is now also used for gene expression, genome assembly, proteomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics and host of other disciplines in the life sciences. The platform itself is actually domain agnostic and can be applied, in theory, to any scientific domain. For example, Galaxy servers exist for image analysis,〔http://cloudimaging.net.au/〕 computational chemistry and drug design,〔http://osddlinux.osdd.net:8001/〕 cosmology, climate modeling, social science,〔http://socscicompute.ss.uci.edu/〕 and linguistics. Finally, Galaxy also supports data and analysis persistence and publishing. See Reproducibility and Transparency below. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galaxy (computational biology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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