User:Ameliea23/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Galaxy (computational biology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Galaxy is an important emerging tool for biologists to do entry level genomics work (along with other scientific workflows). It is important to have information about this resource that is comprehensive and accessible, to encourage use and spread awareness of the platform's capabilities. The current article is a good 'start' but still has much room for improvement.

Lead section
The first sentence is informative and importantly touches on the goals of the program. There is a somewhat overemphasis on Galaxy's domain agnosticism, especially as it is primarily used for bioinformatics. While an important detail, this may not be worth occupying 50% of the lead section.

The lead section could be expanded to provide more on other aspects of the article, like the history and development of galaxy and its applications.

Content
I think the functionality section is the most important, because it gives the most detail about what Galaxy actually does and how it can be of use to readers. Overall, the article focuses more on the goals and intentions of Galaxy without much detail about applications and impact. There could also be more detail in how the program was developed and the need that it fills as a bioinformatics GUI. The Implementation section in particular has an unclear focus and repeats some information. This could be replaced with a history and development section.

Tone and Balance
While the tone is neutral, it could do a better job at expressing criticism of galaxy. It maintains a fairly positive attitude throughout the article, although my initial research indicates that some view the platform as redundant, with the logic that the amount of technical skill you need to use Galaxy is such that you could likely achieve similar outcomes without Galaxy while gaining more functionality. Further more the cited sources are predominantly material published by Galaxy about Galaxy, limiting the perspectives provided. I appreciate that in one section a competitor is mentioned that provides functionality that Galaxy does not.

Sources and References
As referenced earlier, many cited sources are published by the platform creators. The article would benefit from some quality secondary sources that describe the impact of the platform.

Misc.

 * Images and screenshots of the interface could aid description