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How Docker containers are supporting the COVID-19 genomic monitoring effort

This is a guest blog post from Dr. Kelsey Florek and Curtis Kapsak. A video presentation of this post from https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands can be found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG7qBU63j9c. Dr. Kelsey Florek is the Senior Genomics and Data Scientist at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and a steering committee member of the State Public Health Bioinformatics group (StaPH-B). Curtis Kapsak is a Bioinformatics Scientist at Theiagen Genomics and is a member of the State Public Health Bioinformatics group (StaPH-B).

Analytical workflows are held to the same standards as other laboratory developed tests and to support this effort, the https://staphb.org/ consortium (StaPH-B) started developing a repository of dockerized software that was commonly used in public health genomic data analyses, https://github.com/StaPH-B/docker-builds.