Galaxy Project API

The open-source Galaxy bioinformatics workbench exposes a REST API for managing histories, datasets, workflows, tools, jobs, and users across community Galaxy servers and self-hosted installations.

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name: Galaxy Project API
description: The open-source Galaxy bioinformatics workbench exposes a REST API for managing histories,
  datasets, workflows, tools, jobs, and users across community Galaxy servers and self-hosted installations.
humanURL: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/api_doc.html
baseURL: https://usegalaxy.org/api/
tags:
- Bioinformatics
- Open-Source
- Workflows
- Galaxy
tags_raw:
- Bioinformatics
- Open Source
- Workflows
- Galaxy
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/api_doc.html
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy