Docker
Certain bioinformatic software packages are distributed as Docker images. An example is MiXeR. Thus, running tasks that use these software packages (MixerTask for example) requires installation of Docker.
- Follow the directions here to install Docker on Ubuntu Linux. There are similar instructions for installing on other operating systems
- To be able to run docker images without use of
sudo, you need to be added to the Docker usergroup. You can do this via