bracken

Download        : docker pull ghcr.io/autamus/bracken
Compressed Size : 103MB

Description

Bracken (Bayesian Reestimation of Abundance with KrakEN) is a highly accurate statistical method that computes the abundance of species in DNA sequences from a metagenomics sample.

Usage

Pull (Download)

To download the latest version of bracken run,

docker pull ghcr.io/autamus/bracken:latest

or to download a specific version of bracken run,

docker pull ghcr.io/autamus/bracken:1.0.0

Run

To run the container as an application run,

docker run --rm ghcr.io/autamus/bracken bracken --version

or to run the container in an interactive session run,

docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/autamus/bracken bash

Mounting volumes between the container and your machine

To access files from your machine within the bracken container you’ll have to mount them using the -v external/path:internal/path option.

For example,

docker run -v ~/Documents/Data:/Data ghcr.io/autamus/bracken bracken /Data/myData.csv

which will mount the ~/Documents/Data directory on your computer to the /Data directory within the container.

HPC

If you’re looking to use this container in an HPC environment we recommend using Singularity-HPC to use the container just as any other module on the cluster. Check out the SHPC bracken container here.