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Introduction

An introduction to everything required to properly use Dockstore as a contributor. Learn about how Docker and CWL/WDL/Nextflow are changing how scientists use and create tools via a series of tutorials which goes through the whole process of:

• Creating a tool with Docker
• Describing the tool with a descriptor file (CWL/WDL/Nextflow)
• Creating a Dockstore account
• Registering the tool on Dockstore

The tool we will be using throughout this tutorial is BAMStats. It is a tool for summarising Next Generation Sequencing alignments. It accepts a BAM file as input and produces a ZIP file containing an HTML report on the alignment.