VlachosGroup / AIMSim

A Python toolbox to work with molecular similarity
https://vlachosgroup.github.io/AIMSim/README.html
MIT License
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Containerize application #95

Closed himaghna closed 2 years ago

JacksonBurns commented 2 years ago

I took a shot at this just out of curiosity, and you can try for yourself on this branch (either build this, or run this container). I don't think this is really going to work - tkinter requires a virtual display to run, which in turn requires setting up an xserver and even then it is only ~10% functional. The Docker container is inherently separate from the OS, so getting new molecule database files in is a nightmare, and the plots don't seem to work in general.

Seems best to just stick with pip install aimsim as the only game in town.