Computational biology and genomics
I just finished reading "Using prototyping to choose a bioinformatics workflow management system", which I summarised on Mastodon as follows: Enjoyed reading "Using prototyping to choose a #bioinformatics workflow management system". Paper describes authors’ 10 day experience searching and implementing a workflow. Summary: Need to decide which tool to use? Shortlist a list of potentially…
Last updated: 2023/02/28 Recently I have gotten several messages from users having problems with running RStudio Server with the latest R version (4.2.2) from The Rocker Project. The latest RStudio Server image is based on r-ver:4.2.2, which is based on ubuntu:jammy (Ubuntu 22.04). The RStudio Server image for r-ver:4.2.0 is based on ubuntu:focal (Ubuntu 20.04)….
In my last post I outlined an approach for automatically creating reproducible documentation using GitHub Actions. I have now updated my Docker documentation using the same approach but without using a container because then I’d have to run Docker inside a Docker container (which is actually possible using GitLab’s CI/CD platform but I haven’t tried…
Docker has been around for 8 years and it has become a very popular platform for developing software. In the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 39.2% of professional developers (total of 44,705) reported that they have done development work using Docker. Docker is only behind Linux and Windows! For the full list check out Stack…
The Broad Institute have shared their GATK workflows on GitHub, however they are configured to be used with Google Cloud. I was not able to find a lot of information on executing the workflows locally and I only found this tutorial. I ran into problems while trying to follow the tutorial but eventually got it…
I will be giving a workshop titled "Reproducible Bioinformatics" at BioC Asia tomorrow. I have been thinking a lot about this topic and my aim for the workshop is to introduce computational tools and demonstrate how they can be used to help promote reproducibility when performing bioinformatic analyses. Ensuring reproducibility shouldn’t be an extra burden…