On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Greg Von Kuster <g...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Peter Cock wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Greg Von Kuster <g...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> We will certainly include support for new data formats into the Galaxy core. >>> In case you haven't seen it, details for adding new formats is available in >>> our wiki at >>> https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/AddingDatatypes. >> >> Hi Greg, >> >> Should that page talk about lib/galaxy/datatypes/registry.py as well? > > Sure! If you have found weaknesses or missing details in the wiki > that made it harder for you to add a new datatype, please feel free > to improve the wiki content. Sometimes we miss things because > we're so close to the implementation that things make sense to us, > but not to others.
Is there anything documented about the built-in format conversion within the Galaxy core, rather than tools. >> That seems to be where mime types are specified, and for some >> reason (a historical fall back?), there is another sniffer listing here too >> (as well as in datatypes_conf.xml). > > The sniffer listing and the mimetypes and datatypes by extension > in registry.py are default values in case (form some reason) these > datatypes are not listed in the datatypes_conf.xml. That's what I thought, Peter ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
