Running Galaxy project on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Galaxy on 30 Nov 2017

This is a step-by-step tutorial on running an instance of the Galaxy platform (v17.09) for biomedical research on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

A Python script to update NCBI BLAST databases

By Vimalkumar Velayudhan in Python on 05 Mar 2017

Updating BLAST databases can can be done using the update_blastdb command but this script only updates databases if they are not being used.