title: BioMAJ2Galaxy: automatic update of reference data in Galaxy using BioMAJ.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many bioinformatics tools use reference data, such as genome assemblies or sequence databanks. Galaxy offers multiple ways to give access to this data through its web interface. However, the process of adding new reference data was customarily manual and time consuming, even more so when this data needed to be indexed in a variety of formats (e.g. Blast, Bowtie, BWA, or 2bit). BioMAJ is a widely used and stable software that is designed to automate the download and transformation of data from various sources. This data can be used directly from the command line, in more complex systems, such as Mobyle, or by using a REST API.
  
  
  RESULTS
  To ease the process of giving access to reference data in Galaxy, we have developed the BioMAJ2Galaxy module, which enables the gap between BioMAJ and Galaxy to be bridged. With this module, it is now possible to configure BioMAJ to automatically download some reference data, to then convert and/or index it in various formats, and then make this data available in a Galaxy server using data libraries or data managers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The developments presented in this paper allow us to integrate the reference data in Galaxy in an automatic, reliable, and diskspace-saving way. The code is freely available on the GenOuest GitHub account (https://github.com/genouest/biomaj2galaxy).
authors.affiliation: INRA, UMR Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP), BioInformatics Platform for Agroecosystems Arthropods (BIPAA), Campus Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France ; INRIA, IRISA, GenOuest Core Facility, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bretaudeau
authors.affiliation: INRIA, IRISA, GenOuest Core Facility, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France.
authors.forename: Cyril
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Monjeaud
authors.affiliation: INRIA, IRISA, GenOuest Core Facility, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France.
authors.forename: Yvan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Le Bras
authors.affiliation: INRA, UMR Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP), BioInformatics Platform for Agroecosystems Arthropods (BIPAA), Campus Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France ; INRIA, IRISA, GenScale, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France.
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Legeai
authors.affiliation: INRIA, IRISA, GenOuest Core Facility, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, 35042 France.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Collin
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D019295:Computational Biology; D020407:Internet; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: BioMAJ; Data libraries; Data manager; Galaxy; Reference data