{credit}PLoS Comput Biol 13(5):e1005425{/credit}
There’s a galaxy of tools in the Galaxy bioinformatics environment — 4,807 at last count. With them, researchers can do just about anything, computationally speaking. One thing they couldn’t do was work with their data programmatically. Now, thanks to a recent software update, that gap has been filled.
In a paper published on 25 May in PLoS Computational Biology, the Galaxy team describes a plug-in that provides access to both Jupyter (neé IPython notebook) and RStudio.