Message-ID: <1268306655.2705378.1420675673410.JavaMail.root@fredhutch.org>
Date: 2015-01-08T00:07:53Z
From: Dan Tenenbaum
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Announcing Docker containers for Bioconductor
In-Reply-To: <454035861.2705375.1420675634830.JavaMail.root@fredhutch.org>
We're pleased to announce the availability of Docker containers for Bioconductor.
With Bioconductor containers, we hope to enhance
* reproducibility: If you run some code in a container today,
you can run it again in the same container (with the same tag)
years later and know that nothing in the container has changed.
* ease of use: With one command, you can be running the latest
release or devel Bioconductor. No need to worry about whether
packages and system dependencies are installed.
* convenience: Sometimes you just want a fresh R with no packages
installed, in order to test something; or you typically don't have
microarray packages installed but suddenly you need to do a microarray
analysis. Containers make this easy.
For more information, please see our Docker Containers page at http://bioconductor.org/help/docker/ .
Let us know if you have comments or questions.
Dan