Virtual training on virtual environments: an online open-source introduction to conda

Abstract

We present our lesson material and resources for teaching how to use conda (https: //conda.io), a tool that streamlines software installation and version management using isolated environments, while providing multiple methods for reproducing and sharing software set ups. This training material was developed for the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), whose primary goal is to teach biologists computational tools that help make their analysis workflows FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (Wilkinson et al., 2016).