Containers available from Singularity Hub, Biocontainers, and elsewhere, can be downloaded and used analogously.
This particular container provides the latest release of the R software in an Ubuntu OS environment.
Install Singularity or Docker on your own machine:.
singularity build -remote - build a Singularity from local specifications in definition fileįor full details, see singularity -help, man singularity, and the Singularity website.singularity build - import an existing Singularity or Docker container available online.singularity shell - run bash shell within container.singularity exec - execute any command within container.
singularity run - run predefined script within container.Biocontainers - “community-driven framework which provides system-agnostic executable environments for bioinformatics software” (Docker-based containers)Īll tasks for using Linux containers, such as downloading, building, and running containers, is done via the singularity client and supported on Wynton HPC.Docker Hub - the official repository for Docker-based containers (100,000’s of containers).Singularity Hub by Vanessa Sochat at Stanford - requires GitHub login (as of July 2019).Singularity Library by Sylabs - the official repository for Singularity-specific containers.using full scientific pipelines shared by othersīecause you can create and customize your own containers, and because Singularity also supports Docker containers, you have immediate access to a very large number of Singularity and Docker containers available via repositories such as:.