Installation

BiG-MEx consists of an analysis workflow implemented in three docker images:

1. epereira/bgc_profiler
2. epereira/meta_bgc_dom_div
3. epereira/merge_bgc_dom_div

Before running BiG-MEx it is necessary to install docker or singularity.

Then, just download the run_bgc_*.bash scripts from here (either for docker or singularity, depending on what container platform you have installed) and make these executable with chmod +x run_bgc_*.bash. All images are in dockerhub and will be downloaded automatically the first time you run the scripts. The download may take a few minutes (depending on your internet speed connection) since the images contain a considerable amount of data.

If you are updating a previous version, it is recommended to remove the old images and do a fresh download:

docker rmi $(docker images -q epereira/bgc_profiler)
docker rmi $(docker images -q epereira/meta_bgc_dom_div)
docker rmi $(docker images -q epereira/merge_bgc_dom_meta)