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Seqera Containers

Seqera Containers is a free public registry operated by Seqera and powered by Wave. It uses Wave's on-demand build and freeze capabilities to produce Conda and PyPI container images, then publishes them to community.wave.seqera.io. Anyone can request an image through the web interface, the Wave CLI, or the Nextflow integration. No account is required.

Images are hosted in the Wave community container registry at community.wave.seqera.io. Seqera stores them for at least five years. Images are public and free of charge. They can be pulled from local, HPC, or cloud infrastructure as Docker or native Singularity images.

Supported architectures include linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.

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Seqera Containers only builds Conda- and PyPI-based images. It does not support custom container files, augmentation, or private registry authentication.

You can still use a Seqera Containers image as a base for Wave augmentation, mirroring, freeze mode, and other features.

Use cases​

Use cases for Seqera Containers include:

  • Rapid prototyping: Create a container for any Conda or PyPI package without a local build.
  • Reproducibility: Share a stable image URI with collaborators. The same hash returns the same image for at least five years.
  • Community tooling: Use pre-built images in tutorials, workshops, and demos.

Web interface​

Request an image from Seqera Containers without a software installation or registration:

  1. Visit https://seqera.io/containers.

  2. Search for Conda packages or packages on the Python Package Index.

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    By default, Conda package names are searched in the bioconda and conda-forge channels. Prepend a channel name with :: to search a specific channel. For example, nvidia::cuda.

  3. Open Container settings and select Docker or Singularity, plus linux/amd64 or linux/arm64.

  4. Select Get Container to see the resulting container URI.

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    A spinner shows build progress. If you selected Singularity, a toggle appears below the URI.

  5. Select View build details to see information about the container, the build, and the security scan.

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