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Docker

Definition
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Docker packages an application and its dependencies into images run as isolated containers, yielding portable, repeatable runtime environments on laptops, servers, and many cloud stacks—common for pinning tool versions in genetics and omics pipelines.

Topics
Programming
URL
https://www.docker.com/
Related
Apptainer Conda Git

Why it matters in GWAS

Association software, imputation servers, and QC stacks increasingly ship as Docker images so reviewers can rerun analyses; HPC sites may not allow Docker daemons, so Singularity / Apptainer wrappers are frequent on clusters.

Example usage

"We published a Docker image with the exact PLINK2 build and python stack used to generate the supplement tables."

Apptainer Conda Git Singularity Python uv
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Merkel D. (2014). Docker: lightweight Linux containers for consistent development and deployment. Linux J.
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