Cytoscape Desktop in a Docker Image

Cytoscape Desktop in Docker image with GUI running using xvfb and VNC server

An example of how to use this Docker image

1. Install Docker and Docker Compose for your OS.
2. run mkdir trycydocker command in your terminal.
3. run cd trycydocker command in your terminal.
4. copy .env and compose.yml to the trycydocker directory
5. run docker-compose up -d command in the trycydocker directory.
6. open http://localhost:8888/lab and http://localhost:6080/vnc_auto.html in your web browser.
7. (optional) In http://localhost:8888/lab, create a Notebook [for Python] and run !pip install py4cytoscape in a code Cell, or a Notebook [for R] and run

   if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
   install.packages("BiocManager")
   
   BiocManager::install("RCy3")
   

DockerHub for this repository

Cytoscape content at DockerHub can be found here:

https://hub.docker.com/u/cytoscape