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History and Workflow
Workflow
List Histories
Your history options will appear here in the middle column.

One word of warning, most of these options will not be available to you unless you have registered on the site as we briefly explained earlier.

Here you can rename the history of your analysis or list previously stored histories. Any analysis sessions you perform while logged in will be saved and you can access, rename or delete those histories here. You can also switch to a previous history if needed, or share a history of your analysis to another user. This allows the user to perform many analyses without fear of losing steps and be able to reproduce the analysis at a later date. This is a very useful tool to save, build on or modify, and rerun complicated analyses.

Galaxy has also instituted a “Workflow” function. This allows the user to create a workflow or series of steps, from a history or from scratch, of frequently repeated analysis steps. This workflow can then be revisited and run again on a different set of data and shared with other users.

We’ll be looking at both histories and workflows in more detail in a later section.