MEGA mobile apps are also available for Android and iOS. 3 The service is offered through web-based apps. Dugong is a powerful workstation platform especially designed for scientific computational analysis, mainly of bioinformatics and computational biology, that can be installed in any computational ecosystem, regardless of the operating system and hardware used. MEGA (a recursive acronym standing for MEGA Encrypted Global Access) 2 is a cloud storage and file hosting service offered by MEGA Limited, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. In general terms, it’s a Linux system designed specifically for the development of the Open Science concept, based on the reproducibility and replicability of the research. It’s an implementation built under the MIT license using the Docker platform, an open-source project that automates the implementation of applications within software containers, providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating system-level virtualization on Linux. Docker uses the Linux kernel resource isolation features, such as cgroups and namespaces, as well as the file system AuFS (advanced multi layered unification filesystem) to allow independent containers to run in a single Linux instance, avoiding an overload of initialization and maintenance of virtual machines.
The Dugong project enables efficient creation of reusable containers for bioinformatics data, making the analysis environment and all computational results reproducible by the scientific community.ĭugong is based on version 16.04 of Ubuntu Image, the only Docker system focused on bioinformatics that provides users with a complete graphical user interface (GUI) XFCE4, independent of the host, which should facilitate user interaction with different computing ecosystems, as well as the installation and use of different bioinformatics software. For the distribution of bioinformatics software, two large open source projects have been integrated Dugong: LinuxBrew and BioConda, totaling over 3,500 bioinformatics packages and their respective dependencies.
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