Plugin Development

• Tutorial: A step-by-step guide to building your first QIIME 2 plugin
  • Create your plugin from a template
  • Add a first (real) Method
  • Add a first Visualizer
  • Add a new Artifact Class
  • Add a Usage Example
  • Add a second transformer
  • Add a first Pipeline
  • Conclusion
• How-To Guides
  • Set up your development environment
  • Distribute plugins on GitHub
  • Provide technical support for your users
  • Maximize compatibility between your plugin(s) and existing QIIME 2 distribution(s)
  • Publicize your QIIME 2 plugins (or other QIIME 2-based tools)
  • Register a QIIME 2 plugin
  • Create and register a Method
  • Create and register a visualizer
  • Create and register a pipeline
  • Creating and registering a Transformer
  • Use Artifact Collections as Action inputs or outputs
  • How to play nicely with other plugins
  • How to use Metadata
  • How to test QIIME 2 plugins
  • Writing Usage Examples
  • Defining different Format validation levels
• Explanations
  • Types of QIIME 2 Actions
  • The structure of QIIME 2 plugin packages
  • Semantic types, data types, file formats, and artifact classes
  • Transformers
• References
  • Plugin development anti-patterns
  • Plugin developer API
  • qiime2.Metadata API