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1 Installation

orthogene is now available via ghcr.io as a containerised environment with Rstudio and all necessary dependencies pre-installed.

1.1 Method 1: via Docker

First, install Docker if you have not already.

Create an image of the Docker container in command line:

docker pull ghcr.io/neurogenomics/orthogene

Once the image has been created, you can launch it with:

docker run \
  -d \
  -e ROOT=true \
  -e PASSWORD="<your_password>" \
  -v ~/Desktop:/Desktop \
  -v /Volumes:/Volumes \
  -p 8900:8787 \
  ghcr.io/neurogenomics/orthogene

1.1.1 NOTES

  • Make sure to replace <your_password> above with whatever you want your password to be.
  • Change the paths supplied to the -v flags for your particular use case.
  • The -d ensures the container will run in “detached” mode, which means it will persist even after you’ve closed your command line session.
  • The username will be “rstudio” by default.
  • Optionally, you can also install the Docker Desktop to easily manage your containers.

1.2 Method 2: via Singularity

If you are using a system that does not allow Docker (as is the case for many institutional computing clusters), you can instead install Docker images via Singularity.

singularity pull docker://ghcr.io/neurogenomics/orthogene

For troubleshooting, see the Singularity documentation.

2 Usage

Finally, launch the containerised Rstudio by entering the following URL in any web browser: http://localhost:8900/

Login using the credentials set during the Installation steps.

3 Session Info

utils::sessionInfo()
## R version 4.6.0 RC (2026-04-17 r89917)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.24-bioc/R/lib/libRblas.so 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.12.0  LAPACK version 3.12.0
## 
## locale:
##  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
##  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB              LC_COLLATE=C              
##  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
##  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
##  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
## 
## time zone: America/New_York
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## other attached packages:
## [1] orthogene_1.17.2 BiocStyle_2.39.0
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] gtable_0.3.6              babelgene_22.9           
##  [3] xfun_0.57                 bslib_0.10.0             
##  [5] ggplot2_4.0.2             htmlwidgets_1.6.4        
##  [7] rstatix_0.7.3             lattice_0.22-9           
##  [9] vctrs_0.7.3               tools_4.6.0              
## [11] generics_0.1.4            yulab.utils_0.2.4        
## [13] parallel_4.6.0            tibble_3.3.1             
## [15] pkgconfig_2.0.3           Matrix_1.7-5             
## [17] data.table_1.18.2.1       homologene_1.4.68.19.3.27
## [19] ggplotify_0.1.3           RColorBrewer_1.1-3       
## [21] S7_0.2.1-1                lifecycle_1.0.5          
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