I have been working in Bioinformatics for nearly 10 years, mostly on the computational side of things. I have spent a lot of that time building and installing software. Some of those wounds will never heal! Luckily, along came Anaconda, the scientific distribution of Python, along with the awesome BioConda who took on the task of installing bioinformatics software with relative ease! I don't know if Anaconda necessarily wanted to make life easier for those installing software on HPC systems, but in any case they did.
(Disclaimer, I am technically a core team member of BioConda, but I'm really kind of a slacker core member and the real credit goes to the rest of the team!)
Deploy Modules with EasyBuild
One of my main goals in life is to deploy conda packages as HPC Modules. Deploying HPC Modules can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of naming conventions, environmental variables, file permissions, recursive file...