Title
ORCA: A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Container Environment for Education and Research.
Abstract
The ORCA bioinformatics environment is a Docker image that contains hundreds of bioinformatics tools and their dependencies. The ORCA image and accompanying server infrastructure provide a comprehensive bioinformatics environment for education and research. The ORCA environment on a server is implemented using Docker containers, but without requiring users to interact directly with Docker, suitable for novices who may not yet have familiarity with managing containers. ORCA has been used successfully to provide a private bioinformatics environment to external collaborators at a large genome institute, for teaching an undergraduate class on bioinformatics targeted at biologists, and to provide a ready-to-go bioinformatics suite for a hackathon. Using ORCA eliminates time that would be spent debugging software installation issues, so that time may be better spent on education and research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/bioinformatics/btz278
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Bioinformatics
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
21
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaun D Jackman1727.37
Tatyana Mozgacheva200.34
Susie Chen300.34
Brendan O'Huiginn400.34
Lance Bailey500.34
Inanç Birol643.83
Steven J. M. Jones757871.55