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Development Documentation

Some specific development topics are documented in depth in this document. A broad based and up-to-date overview of the code architecture along with detailed information on contributing to Galaxy can be found in the Code Architecture slides of Galaxy Training Network. A multi-hour long video playlist covering these slides can be found at https://bit.ly/gx-arch-vids.

• Galaxy Tool XML File
• API Design Guidelines
• How SQLAlchemy sessions are handled in Galaxy
• Build a job runner
• Finding and improving slow Galaxy code
• Data managers
• Data Source
• Data Types
• How Do I…
• Writing Tests for Galaxy
• Debugging Galaxy Tests
• Debugging tests that run out of memory
• Debugging Galaxy
• Debugging Galaxy: Slurm Compute Cluster
• Translating the Interface
• Creating Galaxy Releases
• Creating Galaxy Point Releases