Build script and wrapper to run iDEP in standalone mode using singularity

Singularity containers are an alternative to docker containers often found at HPC sites. Tools in this directory allow creation of an iDEP installation that uses singularity.

Requirements

• singularity > 3
• the container must be built on a system where you have sudo privileges with access to the internet to download data files

Set up the application directory and build the container

$ ./build_idep.sh /path/to/install/prefix

Notes:

• This would best be installed to an isolated prefix, not /usr/local.
• Currently this uses the head of the iDEP repo

Running the shiny server

$ /path/to/install/prefix/bin/idep-server

Notes:

• this will pick a random port between 49000 and 50000
• if running this on a compute node, you may need to set up a tunnel to access the server