Jeff Froula written guide on creating a biobox should be intergrated into existing documentation

[michaelbarton]

@jfroula created a biobox for metabat and has subsequently written up a guide
on how he did. I think this is very valuable this provides an outsider's
perspective on what the current shortcomings are. I have converted his write up
to markdown and created a gist.

[fungs]

Thanks, it shows that there is some willingness to adapt and support bioboxes.

I've gone through the example and believe we can already strip the tutorial by over one half by

• using a proper base image instead of using the minion assembler as a template (no need to be aware of the init system, integrated interactive shell without modifying the entrypoint)
• not bothering the user with the handling of the validation part

Once the wrapper takes care of the YAML construction, validation and container calling, the only thing left is the program integration.

[jfroula]

I created a fork (https://gist.github.com/jfroula/ba1e7e3c11a1c868c3e3) from michael's gist that he created from my word doc. Mr. Fungs said that the example could be stripped down by half. That's great, is there a "proper base image" out there? I like the part about not bothering the user with the validation stuff. I will integrate the latest and greatest base image if there is one ready (Michael?).

Also, I have no idea where my gist doc will be published and what I have to do to make it so.

[michaelbarton]

Thanks for your input @jfroula. There is a base image that @fungs is
working on. You could try this and offer any further feedback on using this.

[michaelbarton]

Your gist is useful, I think we will integrate this into the website the next
time we do a round of improving the documentation.