GUIdock: Using Docker Containers with a Common Graphics User Interface to Address the Reproducibility of Research.

ABSTRACT: Reproducibility is vital in science. For complex computational methods, it is often necessary, not just to recreate the code, but also the software and hardware environment to reproduce results. Virtual machines, and container software such as Docker, make it possible to reproduce the exact environment regardless of the underlying hardware and operating system. However, workflows that use Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) remain difficult to replicate on different host systems as there is no high level graphical software layer common to all platforms. GUIdock allows for the facile distribution of a systems biology application along with its graphics environment. Complex graphics based workflows, ubiquitous in systems biology, can now be easily exported and reproduced on many different platf

SUBMITTER: Hung LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4821530 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature