2025-10-13: The RO-Crate website and specification superseded this website after 2020. These pages are no longer maintained.
We strongly recommend that new Research Object users adopt the RO-Crate specification.
Interesting preprint posted to arxiv by Carl Boettiger from UC Santa Cruz, describing an example of an increasing trend to use Docker to package up investigations as reproducible research: Carl Boettiger, An introduction to Docker for reproducible research, with examples from the R environment