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Packaging Jupyter notebooks as installable desktop apps using LabConstrictor

Packaging Jupyter notebooks as installable desktop apps using LabConstrictor
© Iván Hidalgo Cenalmor · CC BY 4.0

Packaging Jupyter notebooks as installable desktop apps using LabConstrictor

Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor, Marcela Xiomara Rivera Pineda, Bruno M. Saraiva, Ricardo Henriques, Guillaume Jacquemet

arXiv · 2026 · doi:10.48550/arXiv.2603.10704PreprintOpen access

Life sciences research depends heavily on open-source academic software, yet many tools remain underused due to installation and distribution barriers. LabConstrictor introduces a GitHub-based packaging workflow that turns Jupyter notebooks into installable desktop applications with version checks and an app-like interface, improving reproducibility and software reuse.

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