University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: October 2019

Programming for Biology – Cold Spring Harbor

Programming for Biology 2019 The famous Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  offers many courses, the course Programming for Biology 2019 was held in October 2019 and this specific course generously offers the course materials online on this site: programmingforbiology.org The course materials covers basics and advanced methods using Unix & Python and provides tutorial materials that include …

Docker notes – Bypass entrypoint

When activated by the docker run command, some docker container immediately start a software within. This can be useful for the author of the image, but for others it may cause issues. Here is one example amongst many, from a series: Bioinformatics Docker Images Project  which may be difficult for some users due to the use of …

Preparing Docker tutorials for biologists

Docker Containers I don’t remember how exactly I discovered Docker containers a bit over a year ago, but it seemed a very good system and I immediately saw the potential, then I thought that it would be very good tutorial material. As I am now creating those tutorials “for biologists” I discover a lot of …