Sharing and Preserving Computational Analyses for Posterity with encapsulator

TL;DR

Encapsulator offers a user-friendly tool to create self-contained computational environments, ensuring reproducibility of research by preserving code and dependencies in a 'time capsule' for future access.

Contribution

It introduces encapsulator, a novel system that simplifies the creation of reproducible research environments with minimal user expertise.

Findings

Enables preservation of computational analyses as self-contained environments.

Facilitates reproducibility without requiring extensive technical skills.

Provides a desktop environment for easy access and sharing of research workflows.

Abstract

Open data and open-source software may be part of the solution to science's "reproducibility crisis", but they are insufficient to guarantee reproducibility. Requiring minimal end-user expertise, encapsulator creates a "time capsule" with reproducible code in a self-contained computational environment. encapsulator provides end-users with a fully-featured desktop environment for reproducible research.