title: Simplified Deployment of Health Informatics Applications by Providing Docker Images.
abstract: Due to the specific needs of biomedical researchers, in-house development of software is widespread. A common problem is to maintain and enhance software after the funded project has ended. Even if many tools are made open source, only a couple of projects manage to attract a user basis large enough to ensure sustainability. Reasons for this include complex installation and configuration of biomedical software as well as an ambiguous terminology of the features provided; all of which make evaluation of software laborious. Docker is a para-virtualization technology based on Linux containers that eases deployment of applications and facilitates evaluation. We investigated a suite of software developments funded by a large umbrella organization for networked medical research within the last 10 years and created Docker containers for a number of applications to support utilization and dissemination.
authors: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Leipzig University, Germany.
authors: Matthias
authors: M
authors: Löbe
authors: Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Ganslandt
authors: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Leipzig University, Germany.
authors: Lydia
authors: L
authors: Lotzmann
authors: Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors: Sebastian
authors: S
authors: Mate
authors: Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Christoph
authors: Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany.
authors: Benjamin
authors: B
authors: Baum
authors: TMF - Technology, Methods, and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research, Berlin, Germany.
authors: Murat
authors: M
authors: Sariyar
authors: TMF - Technology, Methods, and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research, Berlin, Germany.
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Wu
authors: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Leipzig University, Germany.
authors: Sebastian
authors: S
authors: Stäubert
mesh_terms: D003626:Data Display; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design