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Updated: Jun-26-2025

Installation

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

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/motifpeeker

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/motifpeeker

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.

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/motifpeeker

For troubleshooting, see the Singularity documentation.

Usage

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

Session Info

utils::sessionInfo()
## R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.26.so;  LAPACK version 3.12.0
## 
## locale:
##  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
##  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
##  [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: UTC
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## other attached packages:
## [1] MotifPeeker_1.0.0
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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##   [3] gridExtra_2.3               httr2_1.1.2                
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##  [13] crayon_1.5.3                fastmap_1.2.0              
##  [15] dbplyr_2.5.0                XVector_0.49.0             
##  [17] memes_1.17.1                ca_0.71.1                  
##  [19] Rsamtools_2.25.1            rmarkdown_2.29             
##  [21] tzdb_0.5.0                  UCSC.utils_1.5.0           
##  [23] ragg_1.4.0                  purrr_1.0.4                
##  [25] bit_4.6.0                   xfun_0.52                  
##  [27] ggseqlogo_0.2               cachem_1.1.0               
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