RT Journal
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
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2023 
FD February 01 
VO 33 
IS 2 
SP 261 
OP 268 
DO 10.1101/gr.276963.122 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/33/2/261.abstract 
AB 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.