unix – Bioinformatics work notes

Posted April 18, 2018March 29, 2020Posted in bioinformatics, container, software, technology, unixbioinformatics, container, software, technology, unix

Using Container Software

Docker and Singularity are very appealing software systems to run different operating systems or reproducible analysis steps by using “containers”. Here is a quick intro to get you started.

Posted March 22, 2018June 7, 2021Posted in unixunix

Checking files & directories in your Bash script

A quick reminder of the test flags you can use in your bash script to check files before you use them.

Posted March 13, 2018March 29, 2020Posted in cloud computing, unixcloud computing, unix

Allow another user to connect to my EC2 cloud machine

When you get stuck with a problem a friend might be able to help you with you will need to allow him access to your Amazon EC2 cloud machine. Here’s one way to to this.

Posted January 24, 2018March 29, 2020Posted in cloud computing, container, unixcloud computing, container, unix

Creating a Singularity image when Docker is misbehaving

Creating new image files for Docker and for Singularity failed on the AWS Ubuntu machine, but worked without issue using Vagrant on the Mac.

Posted September 29, 2017March 29, 2020Posted in software, unixsoftware, unix

Detect user’s OS using bash

Here is an approach to detect the user’s operating system using a bash script. This might be useful during installation routines of your software.