Containers as cornerstone of reproducible data analysis

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part of the Capita Selecta Lecture Series at UGhent

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Background on Reproducibility and technical components 4 Topics

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Elements for Reproducibility

A quick comparison of virtualisation and containers

Container Setup explained

What is Containerization?

Containers and the reasons for their popularity 17 Topics

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Background about Docker

Typical use cases

Advantages of Docker

Docker components

Basics of the Docker images

Explore Docker hub

Get tools from Biocontainers

Building the recipes for images

Using Biocontainers and Bioconda for bioinformatics tools

Docker command line options

Dockerfile tips

One tool, one image or some tools, one image

Background about Singularity

Singularity Architecture

Strengths and Weaknesses

Building Singularity images

Using the Singularity containers to run commands

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