Welcome, @H1889 !!
Great question! I agree that it would be nice to have these updated. And, incorporating png graphics as an output shouldn’t be a problem anymore.
So – since Galaxy is a community project, we rely on community developer contributions for most of the dev work. One way to learn about the status for tools is to review the development repository, or as in this case, the entire tool suite
- Load up the tool form in a Galaxy session
- Use the Options menu in the upper right corner → See in ToolShed
- Navigate using the Development Repository link
For EMBOSS v 5, that points to here tools-iuc/tools/emboss_5 at main · galaxyproject/tools-iuc · GitHub. I see several tickets already created about an update to v 6 plus other related items. This is good news since it means others are already interested in this project!
- Issues · galaxyproject/tools-iuc · GitHub (query = emboss)
If you are also interested in working on this, you can comment on one of the tickets, or reach out to the IUC directly. Even if you are not interested in doing the technical development work itself, having another scientific contact is valuable! Maybe you can help to make the usage between different platforms more consistent? To better handle use cases like the one you describe, and maybe others that come up later.
I’m glad you asked about this, since posting here gets more eyes on it! This seems like a great project for someone out in the wild looking for a project that will be challenging and has public visibility, but is still within defined/clear bounds.
Thanks! 