13.3 Galaxy data collections
13.3.1 Introduction
Collections in Galaxy can be useful when you have to deal with large numbers of datasets. Examples of when you might use collections include when you have many DNA sequencing samples (e.g. .fastq files) or when you have many genome assembly contigs (e.g. .fasta files). Dataset collections allow you to not only organize these datasets but they also allow you to manipulate them in a single batch operation.