Welcome to Nevada Bioinformatics Center - Docker Workshop

Welcome! This interactive workshop is designed specifically for research scientists who want to modernize their computational workflows.

As our field increasingly relies on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure, the ability to build, share, and deploy reproducible software environments is no longer just a "nice-to-have" skill, it is essential.

Why Docker?

Have you ever tried to run a colleague's pipeline, only to spend three days fighting with conflicting Python versions, missing C++ libraries, or incompatible R packages?

Docker solves the "it works on my machine" problem permanently. By packaging your code, its dependencies, and the operating system itself into a single, portable container, you ensure your analysis runs exactly the same way on your local laptop, the university HPC cluster, or the cloud.

What You Will Learn

In this workshop, you will follow along in your own terminal to master:

1. Container Basics: Pulling and running isolated Linux environments.
2. Data Management: Mounting your raw sequence data into containers to process it safely.
3. Building Environments: Writing Dockerfiles to install specific tools into your own custom images.
4. Reproducibility: Publishing your custom images to Docker Hub so your published papers have perfectly reproducible computational environments.

Let's get started by ensuring your system meets the Prerequisites.