Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Bioinformatics. 2019 Nov 1;35(21):4448-4450. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz278.
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.
The ORCA Docker image is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/bcgsc/orca/. The source code of ORCA is available at https://github.com/bcgsc/orca under the MIT license.
ORCA 生物信息学环境是一个 Docker 镜像，其中包含数百种生物信息学工具及其依赖项。ORCA 镜像和配套的服务器基础架构为教育和研究提供了全面的生物信息学环境。服务器上的 ORCA 环境使用 Docker 容器实现，但无需用户直接与 Docker 交互，适合可能不熟悉容器管理的新手。ORCA 已成功用于为大型基因组研究所的外部合作者提供专用的生物信息学环境，为针对生物学家的生物信息学本科课程提供教学，并为黑客马拉松提供即用型生物信息学套件。使用 ORCA 可以节省调试软件安装问题所花费的时间，从而可以将更多时间用于教育和研究。
ORCA Docker 镜像可在 https://hub.docker.com/r/bcgsc/orca/ 获得。ORCA 的源代码可在 https://github.com/bcgsc/orca 下获得，采用 MIT 许可证。
