TY - JOUR A1 - Bray, Simon A1 - Chilton, John A1 - Bernt, Matthias A1 - Soranzo, Nicola A1 - van den Beek, Marius A1 - Batut, Bérénice A1 - Rasche, Helena A1 - Čech, Martin A1 - Cock, Peter J.A. A1 - Grüning, Björn A1 - Nekrutenko, Anton T1 - The Planemo toolkit for developing, deploying, and executing scientific data analyses in Galaxy and beyond Y1 - 2023/02/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 261 EP - 268 DO - 10.1101/gr.276963.122 VL - 33 IS - 2 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/33/2/261.abstract N2 - There are thousands of well-maintained high-quality open-source software utilities for all aspects of scientific data analysis. For more than a decade, the Galaxy Project has been providing computational infrastructure and a unified user interface for these tools to make them accessible to a wide range of researchers. To streamline the process of integrating tools and constructing workflows as much as possible, we have developed Planemo, a software development kit for tool and workflow developers and Galaxy power users. Here we outline Planemo's implementation and describe its broad range of functionality for designing, testing, and executing Galaxy tools, workflows, and training material. In addition, we discuss the philosophy underlying Galaxy tool and workflow development, and how Planemo encourages the use of development best practices, such as test-driven development, by its users, including those who are not professional software developers. ER -