Bioinformatic in a container

A recent tendency coming from the world of cloud computing is gaining more and more popularity in the bioinformatic community. This tendency is to develop and deploy application in a container. This container contains not only the application but all the needed libraries and a minimalist version of the applications of the operating system. As soon as it is built, the container is ready for use on a host computer containing the environment required to start the container. For a [...]