The plan for the next 3 weeks of development

We undertook planning for Sprint #3 last week, and are continuing to build a minimal viable product that works from end to end and will allow users to

• log into the BPA Data Portal, 
• select a dataset, 
• send this to Galaxy-Australia for NMDS ordination, 
• and retrieve the results. 

This last step (shown in red below) will close the loop so that users can see the results of a relevant analysis type and will mean that we'll then be in a position to start involving users in testing and providing feedback on what they like or don't like.

Other things we are working on in Sprint #3 include:

• implementing support for BIOM format files;
• starting to wrap the six R scripts from the Rhea pipeline (that can be run independently or as a set) for Normalisation; Alpha-Diversity; Beta-Diversity; Taxonomic-Binning; Serial-Group-Comparisons and Correlations, so that these can be invoked via Galaxy and its GUI;
• and work to streamline the connectivity between the BPA Data Portal and Galaxy-Australia so users will have a more seamless user experience.

More detail is in the Trello Board.