Copilot is a great resource to help create a Dockerfile necessary to compile a (Docker) Container image. Containers are simple packages that contain at least the minimal information to run a software within a different OS and/or architecture. Container software include Docker which helped popularize the container methods, but others exist such as apptainer and… Read More »
Summary csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. (csvkit can convert XLSX files to CSV.) A good docker container for csvkit: thomasleplus/csv Inspiration: stack overflow article: convert-xlsx-file-to-csv-using-batch Note: I wrote a different version of this on this post elsewhere: csvkit command-line spreadsheet can convert and… Read More »
I have started a series of tutorials that I am writing from the perspective of a biologist wanting to use a Docker container for a specific application. An easy example could be using EMBOSS, the molecular biology open suite for analysis. The tutorials are online at the Biochemistry department here: Docker tutorials (general page) Docker… Read More »