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ArticleGigaScience2017

GUIdock-VNC: using a graphical desktop sharing system to provide a browser-based interface for containerized software.

Varun Mittal, Ling-Hong Hung, Jayant Keswani, Daniel Kristiyanto, Sung Bong Lee, Ka Yee Yeung

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Article in GigaScience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Reproducible Bioconductor workflows using browser-based interactive notebooks and containers.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Varun Mittal
Ling-Hong Hung
Jayant Keswani
Daniel Kristiyanto
Sung Bong Lee
Ka Yee Yeung

Funding

Data Coordination and Integration Center for LINCS-BD2KU54HL127624 · NHLBI · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI MA'AYAN, AVI, SCHURER, STEPHAN C · 2014 to 2019
$23.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS U54 HL127624
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Software container technology such as Docker can be used to package and distribute bioinformatics workflows consisting of multiple software implementations and dependencies. However, Docker is a command line-based tool, and many bioinformatics pipelines consist of components that require a graphical user interface. Results: We present a container tool called GUIdock-VNC that uses a graphical desktop sharing system to provide a browser-based interface for containerized software. GUIdock-VNC uses the Virtual Network Computing protocol to render the graphics within most commonly used browsers. We also present a minimal image builder that can add our proposed graphical desktop sharing system to any Docker packages, with the end result that any Docker packages can be run using a graphical desktop within a browser. In addition, GUIdock-VNC uses the Oauth2 authentication protocols when deployed on the cloud. Conclusions: As a proof-of-concept, we demonstrated the utility of GUIdock-noVNC in gene network inference. We benchmarked our container implementation on various operating systems and showed that our solution creates minimal overhead.

Indexed as

SoftwareUser-Computer InterfaceWeb BrowserComputational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksSystems BiologybioinformaticscontainersDockergraphical user interfaceresearch reproducibilitysoftware

Identifiers

PMID28327936
PMCPMC5530313

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