title: Creating reusable tools from scripts: the Galaxy Tool Factory.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Galaxy is a software application supporting high-throughput biology analyses and work flows, available as a free on-line service or as source code for local deployment. New tools can be written to extend Galaxy, and these can be shared using public Galaxy Tool Shed (GTS) repositories, but converting even simple scripts into tools requires effort from a skilled developer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Tool Factory is a novel Galaxy tool that automates the generation of all code needed to execute user-supplied scripts, and wraps them into new Galaxy tools for upload to a GTS, ready for review and installation through the Galaxy administrative interface.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Galaxy administrative interface supports automated installation from the main GTS. Source code and support are available at the project website, https://bitbucket.org/fubar/galaxytoolfactory. The Tool Factory is implemented as an installable Galaxy tool.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  ross.lazarus@channing.harvard.edu.
authors.affiliation: Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia. ross.lazarus@channing.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lazarus
authors.forename: Antony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaspi
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ziemann
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000379:methods*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface