The course will give an introduction to containers (Docker & Singularity) which are great components to achieve portability and reproducibility of your analysis. You will learn how to use containers and how to build a container from scratch, share it with others and how to re-use and modify existing containers. After an extensive explanation on Docker containers, Singularity will be highlighted as well. 

Objectives

• Learn the concept of and the difference between Docker & Singularity containers 
• Write a Docker recipe, build and run a Docker image and containers
• Pull and push Docker container to / from Docker hub
• Docker files and layers; Docker cashing
• Working with volumes
• Pull Docker containers as a Singularity image

Trainer: Head of the VIB Bioinformatics Core Alexander Botzki - alexander.botzki@vib.be

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