Galaxy Workflow Automation with BioBlend and Planemo

Purpose

This skill provides expert knowledge for automating Galaxy workflows using BioBlend (Python Galaxy API library) and Planemo (Galaxy workflow testing and execution tool).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Automating Galaxy workflow execution via API
• Building batch processing systems for Galaxy
• Using BioBlend to interact with Galaxy
• Testing workflows with Planemo
• Managing Galaxy histories, datasets, and collections programmatically
• Polling workflow invocation status
• Implementing error handling and retry logic for Galaxy operations
• Creating Galaxy automation pipelines
• Integrating Galaxy into larger bioinformatics workflows