Central Galaxy server or Galaxy source distribution Should I use the central Galaxy server environment hosted at Penn State or should I download the Galaxy source code and host it locally within my environment?
It depends upon your specifics needs. In general, we advise our customers to use the central Galaxy server, hosted by The Institute for Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics at Penn State University. This environment is freely available to anyone with Internet access. Unlimited disk space is available for storing personal Galaxy histories and data. If you want to manage a local Galaxy environment, the Galaxy source distribution aims to be a “zero configuration”, entirely self-contained system that provides a lightweight webserver, an embedded database and a multi-threaded job manager. All tools (and their parameters) can be specified via simple XML based configuration files.
