How to do it…

Take a look at the following steps. These assume that you have a Docker-enabled command line:

  1. First, we pull the Galaxy Docker image with the following command:
docker pull bgruening/galaxy-stable:18.05

This will pull Björn Grüning's amazing Docker Galaxy image. Use the 18.05 label, as shown in the preceding command; anything more recent might break this and the next recipe.

  1. Create a directory on your system. This directory will hold the persistent output of the Docker container across runs.
Docker containers are transient with regard to disk space. This means that when you stop the container, all disk changes will be lost. This can be solved by mounting volumes from the host on Docker, as in the next step. All content in ...

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