diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:18.04
+MAINTAINER Jonathan Crabtree <jcrabtree@som.umaryland.edu>
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl
+
+# Perl dependencies
+RUN apt-get install -y libgd-svg-perl libjson-perl libtext-csv-perl liblog-log4perl-perl vcftools libbatik-java libmodule-build-perl make cpanminus bioperl fop
+RUN cpanm Bio::FeatureIO::gff
+
+# Install specific release of Circleator from source
+RUN cd /opt && curl -LO https://github.com/jonathancrabtree/Circleator/archive/1.0.2.tar.gz && tar xzf 1.0.2.tar.gz
+RUN cd /opt/Circleator-1.0.2 && perl Build.PL && ./Build && ./Build install
+RUN cd /opt && ln -s Circleator-1.0.2 Circleator
+
+# Install Circleator from GitHub master branch
+#RUN head -c 5 /dev/random >random2.txt && cd /opt && curl -LO https://github.com/jonathancrabtree/Circleator/archive/master.zip && unzip master.zip
+#RUN cd /opt/Circleator-master && perl Build.PL && ./Build && ./Build install
+#RUN cd /opt && ln -s Circleator-master Circleator
+
+# bam_get_coverage (optional Circleator extra)
+# samtools 1.7 from source
+RUN apt-get install -y libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblzma-dev gcc libglib2.0-dev
+RUN cd /opt && curl -LO https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/1.7/samtools-1.7.tar.bz2 && tar xjf samtools-1.7.tar.bz2
+RUN cd /opt/samtools-1.7 && ./configure && make
+RUN cd /opt/Circleator/util/samtools && ./make.sh && cp bam_get_coverage *.pl ../*.pl /usr/local/bin/
+
+# add non-root user
+RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash circleator
+
+# install tutorials in /home/circleator
+RUN cd /opt && curl -LO https://github.com/jonathancrabtree/Circleator/archive/gh-pages.zip && unzip gh-pages.zip
+RUN cp -r /opt/Circleator-gh-pages/tutorials /home/circleator/ && chown -R circleator:circleator /home/circleator/tutorials
+
+# cleanup
+RUN /bin/rm -rf /opt/Circleator-gh-pages /opt/*.gz /opt/*.zip /opt/*.bz2
+
+# switch user
+USER circleator
+WORKDIR /home/circleator
+
+
+
diff --git a/docker/build-docker.sh b/docker/build-docker.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+docker build -t umigs/circleator-v1.0.2 .
diff --git a/docker/run-docker.sh b/docker/run-docker.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+docker run -dt --name 'c1' umigs/circleator-v1.0.2:latest
+docker exec -i -t c1 /bin/bash