Hi all!
Long time no hear.
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Using containers in bioinformatics can bring benefits like software portability, data reproducibility and improved collaboration. Are containers the right fit for your research? This three-part series takes you from the absolute basics of containers through
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www.biocommons.org.au
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What's a container? It's a way of packaging up analyses with correct versions of software and data to make analyses highly reproducible, which as we know is incredibly important and often rather lacking in published work.
There's a really nice blog entry here on why containers, in particular one system called Docker, is handy. Very accessible read: link below.
If you're interested in "attending" the webinars then you can register to do so, and I think they'll be recorded.
After the webinars there will be some online workshops learning how to use containers; you don't have to worry about registering for them now but I'd like to get a sense if anyone was interested in *maybe* doing one of those. I get the impression they will
use command-line tools but don't know yet.
Anyway, have a read over the long weekend:
Cheers for now,
Michael Charleston
Mathematical Biology Group
Associate Professor in Bioinformatics
Associate Head of School (Learning and Teaching)
Academic
co-Lead, UTAS - Data, Knowledge, Decisions
School of Natural Sciences
University of Tasmania
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 6226 2444
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