Spinoza was updated to cent os7.3 and linked up to the new computing env

In January we released a new version of Stocks. This version, in comparison to 0.3RC:

• supports multiple groups
• public items
• controlled vocabulary pictures
• numbers and ranges with controlled units
• numerous bug fixes.

For all changes see the release notes (internal only).

STOCKS 0.3 Release Candidate released to Typas group

In addition to starting RStudio within Galaxy, you can now also use the GalaxyConnector package to directly connect from your R/RStudio session at Spinoza or Schroedinger to any Galaxy instance. Please follow the 'End User' steps from this README: https://github.com/scholtalbers/r-galaxy-connector

Following the lately created script to easily install new versions of R, we updated the procedure to make it even easier and a lot quicker.

Following the update of the GBCS server, which enabled Docker, we have configured Galaxy to run so called interactive environments. Enabled are the IPython Notebook and RStudio. See also this video on how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKmXSN1G-Po

Beginning of this month we updated our servers Spinoza and Schroedinger to CentOS6.5. With this change we enabled Docker on all compute servers and we updated our Storage policy. In addition, they now all use the new EMBL cluster.