Extended Data Fig. 1: General overview of the installation process for omics software tools.
From: Packaging and containerization of computational methods
When biomedical researchers need to use omics software tools and reproduce reported results, they first need to locate the version number and web address of each omics tool using the published research paper and supplementary information. They can then download the omics tools, determine each tool’s dependencies using information provided by the tool’s developers, and try to install the tools on their personal computer or HPC cluster. If the tool is successfully installed, the researchers download the relevant omics data and apply the tools as needed. However, even when the hardware resource requirements (CPU type, memory capacity, and storage) of each tool are met, some omics tools are likely to fail when exact reproduction is attempted because of installation challenges.
