GenomeSpace brings together diverse computational tools and enables scientists without programming skills to easily combine the capabilities of these tools. It offers a common space to create, manipulate, and share an ever-growing range of genomic analysis tools.
As of: Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 01:22PM, Priority: General
All systems are operating normally.
GenomeSpace is in the news:
GenomeSpace will be featured at the Bioinformatics Software Interoperability SIG at ISMB 2012 in Long Beach CA, on July 13. Learn about GenomeSpace and how you can add your genomics tool or data source to the GenomeSpace environment. Also featured will be Cytoscape, Galaxy, GenePattern, and Taverna.
Posted by GenomeSpace Development Team on Monday, May 14, 2012 at 03:04PM
GenomeSpace attempts to minimize sign-ons but does not have true single sign on (yet). Currently it's more of a dual-sign on system. Web applications can sign on using the GenomeSpace OpenID provider. Desktop applications can sign on using the Java CDK. These two systems do not yet communicate with each other due to technical limitations. Specifically, the OpenID protocol requires the ability for an OpenID provider to be able to establish a secure HTTP connection to a client. For desktop applications this is frequently not possible due to organizational firewalls. The CDK shares login via storage of a token (like a browser cookie) on the client machine. Web applications are prevented (rightly) by the browsers from accessing files on the client machine and therefore they can't use this mechanism either. As a result the GenomeSpace tools use one of these two systems:
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OpenID: Galaxy, GenePattern, InSilico DB, GenomeSpace user interface
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CDK: Cytoscape, Genomica, the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)
The UCSC Table Browser is different in that it is not using OpenID, instead relying on the same protocol as the CDK, but without the ability to share the token with other applications. Therefore for the time being, users must log into UCSC separately.
Future posts will include updates on our efforts to establish a single sign-on across GenomeSpace tools.
Posted by Ted Liefeld on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 02:53PM
The GenomeSpace File Uploader Applet is not working on the Safari browser on some Macs due to changes made by Apple to prevent the Flashback trojan. If this affects you, please update your Safari to the lates version or use Firefox or Chrome instead.
If you are still at version 5.0.5 or earlier, you can download 5.0.6 from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1422
For Snow Leopard, Safari 5.1.7 is available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1531
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