SCIF

We will start by reviewing the background and rationale for a scientific organizational format, and how SCIF achieves the goals of modularity, transparency, and consistency. We then review the organizational structure of the standard, and the different levels of internal modules that it affords. For this work, we provide several tutorials to demonstrate using the scientific filesystem with Docker and Singularity, and additionally have implemented and released the organizational format as a native integration with the Singularity software. Finally, we discuss use cases for SCIF in context of containers, including how SCIF can be used to evaluate software, provide metrics, serve scientific workflows, and execute a primary function under different contexts. To encourage collaboration and sharing of apps, we have developed an open source, version controlled, tested, and programmatically accessible web infrastructure at https://sci-f.github.io/apps. For developers, we provide a getting..