Introduction to containers (1 of 3)
Channel: SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Date: 2022-06-28

The video was recorded live during the SIB course “Docker and Singularity for reproducible research: getting started with containers” streamed on 12 April 2022.

It introduces you to working with containers in the context of bioinformatics research, we will take a practical approach with several hands-on exercises to go through the basics of using, developing and sharing containers.
The course materials can be found in the dedicated GitHub page (https://sib-swiss.github.io/containers-introduction-training/latest/).

This video contains information on how to:
• Discriminate between an image and a container
• Run a docker container from dockerhub interactively
• Validate the available containers and their status

Target audience: PhD students, post-docs and researchers in life sciences who are doing bioinformatic analyses and want to get introduced to containers.

Speaker: Dr. Geert van Geest, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Any questions about this talk? Contact: Geert van Geest, Geert.Vangeest@sib.swiss