mr-c
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3 years ago This could be a fun project during this year's https://biohackathon-europe.org/ (though it might have to be unofficial)
It could also be a good Google Summer of Code project, though probably too late for this year (the student application deadline is next Tuesday). However, if you know of a good student they could apply via the Open Bioinformatics Foundation if you scramble. Contact me directly if you are interested in this.
Ideally all the concepts in https://bulker.databio.org/en/latest/manifest/ could be represented by labels inside the software container already
That way container authors can include these up front and (bulker) users won't have to figure them out themselves.
Of course these container-author provided configurations should be customizable/overridable by bulker manifest authors.
Ideally the standardized labels are used, when possible https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/master/annotations.md#pre-defined-annotation-keys
Once this is defined, this could be adopted by software container maintenance communities like biocontainers.pro