Why Singularity

Singularity is a container solution that provides some benefits for bioinformaticians:

• allows to install packages and tools without conflicts with the host system
• ensures reproducibility as using the same image should result in the same output

Compared with other containers:

• the image is an easily shareable file
• will run in user space (does not require root priviledges)
• will seamlessly see your filesystem and can be used almost as a native tool would