How to run 'any' Tool

This guide describes the quick and easy set up almost any software tool on your system. To use space efficiently, the tools can easily be removed once analysis is complete. Set up does not require installing additional dependencies and can be completed in a matter of minutes.

Containers are portable and reproducible; they allow the packaging of software and their associated environments (OS, libraries, tools, etc.) within an encapsulated file that can be executed on diverse systems without the need to explicitly port or integrate with the OS, libraries, or environment specific to the host system.

Container repositories such as Sylabs.io Container Library, Docker Hub, Singularity Hub and GitHub provide thousands of pre-built Container Images.

This guide tells you how to:

• transfer a container image on your system,
• run the software tool(s) inside that container and
• remove container images that are no longer required.

Full instructions can be found in the Apptainer User Documentation.

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