README.md

hmmer-docker

Docker support for HMMER-- biological sequence analysis using profile HMMs

To learn more about HMMER

http://hmmer.org/documentation.html http://eddylab.org/software/hmmer/Userguide.pdf

To learn more about Docker:

https://docs.docker.com/get-started/

Quickstart instructions:

Install Docker on your machine:

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-18-04

Build the HMMER Docker image:

You will need to build a Docker image from the Dockerfile and you need to be in the same directory where the Dockerfile is located to execute build command

cd hmmer-docker
docker build --tag my_hmmer .

Run a HMMER command:

docker run -it my_hmmer:latest <HMMER command>

E.g to run hmmsearch:

docker run -it my_hmmer:latest hmmsearch -h