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Published September 18, 2020 | Version 2.0.0
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SC4DA: Standard Container For Data Analysis

Creators

  • 1. University of Basel, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Description

This is a recipe for creating an environment with tools and packages which I use for widely understood data analysis.

In general the smaller the environment is - the better. Little number of packages imply less constraints on software versions and smaller disk space. When it comes to publishing research I highly advise to encapsulate scripts and pipelines into minimal environments necessary to execute the analyses, either with Docker or Conda technologies.

That being said

Having a dedicated environment for software development & data analysis can speed up the research significantly. Often, to avoid wasting precious time, there is a need to perform a quick-and-dirty data inspection or processing. It would be a bad idea to install all the required packages into a main environment. It is much safer, more efficient and cleaner to have a separate work space just like the one I present here.

Notes

Code repository: https://github.com/AngryMaciek/SC4DA

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