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14 :author: Prof. Thomas J. Grabowski, Jr.
15 :affiliation: Director, Integrated Brain Imaging Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
17 :tags: lofs, speed, frontier
18 :group: Research institutions
20 [...] software for neuroimage processing evolves rapidly and heterogeneously. It is a challenge for research organizations to remain current [...] In this context we have begun to use the NeuroDebian repository [...] We hope that this service will continue with an expanded scope [...]
24 :author: Prof. Daniel Y. Kimberg
25 :affiliation: Core Director, Data Processing Facility, Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
27 :tags: lofs, software distribution, quality, reproducibility, practices, impact
28 :group: Research institutions
30 The approach taken with NeuroDebian is plainly the most appropriate approach to software distribution for the dominant platform in brain image analysis, and I have great confidence that this project will be a major asset to the neuroscience community in facilitating the distribution of stable software, improving the reliability and replicability of analyses, and in helping to improve software development practices.
34 :author: Prof. Bennett Landman
35 :affiliation: Director of the Center for Computational Imaging, Vanderbilt University Institute of Image Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
37 :tags: lofs, software distribution, quality
38 :group: Research institutions
40 NeuroDebian provides an excellent platform for software distribution [...]
44 :author: Prof. Barak A. Pearlmutter
45 :affiliation: Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
47 :tags: lofs, software distribution, sharing, money, speed
48 :group: Research institutions
50 Having common software stacks makes sharing much easier, potentially (and silently) saving enormous amounts of money and effort and dramatically increasing efficiently and productivity in not one, but many labs. NeuroDebian is of particular utility in these regards.
54 :author: Prof. Russell A. Poldrack
55 :affiliation: Director, Imaging Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
57 :tags: lofs, breadth, impact
58 :group: Research institutions
60 I think that the idea of a common platform that supports a broad range of computational needs for neuroscientists is wonderful, and I am very impressed with the work that you have done so far in the NeuroDebian project.
64 :author: Dr. Bertrand Thirion
65 :affiliation: Head of the Parietal research group at Neurospin, Gif sur Yvette, France
68 :group: Research institutions
70 [NeuroDebian is] extremely useful in providing state of the art solutions to numerous standard problems encountered in the analysis of our complex data.
75 :affiliation: IT system administrator, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
77 :tags: lofs, software distribution, frontier
78 :group: Research institutions
80 NeuroDebian project made our library available to an unprecedented number of users [...] as a system administrator, I rely on NeuroDebian for setting up and keeping up-to-date the software installed on the numerous clients and servers used by more than 150 scientists
84 :author: Dr. Matthew Brett
85 :affiliation: Specialist researcher, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
87 :tags: lofs, practices, team, sharing
88 :group: Research software projects
90 [...] your team are ideally placed to make this system work. I have worked with Yaroslav Halchenko and Michael Hanke. [...] Their record on working together as a team, and individually, is easy to find, and speaks for itself. Their demonstrated combination of seemingly inexhaustible energy, openness and skill has been of enormous benefit to our own project and community.
94 :author: Prof. Bruce Fischl
95 :affiliation: Director, Computational Core at Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
97 :tags: lofs, perspective, software distribution
98 :group: Research software projects
100 Having FreeSurfer integrated into the Debian operating system by the NeuroDebian team would have enormous benefits for us, and for the thousands of users of FreeSurfer across the world.
104 :author: Dr. Satrajit Ghosh
105 :affiliation: Research scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
107 :tags: lofs, software distribution
108 :group: Research software projects
110 In creating a source repository for distribution of common neuroimaging tools, NeuroDebian has filled a gaping void. It is an incredibly useful resource that we have been relying on at MIT for installation of software.
114 :author: Valentin Haenel
115 :affiliation: Psignifit and pyoptical developer, Modellierung Kognitiver Prozesse, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
117 :tags: lofs, reproducibility
118 :group: Research software projects
120 [ [...] The] only way to conduct reliable and reproducible science is to use open source software [...]. NeuroDebian is by far the most advanced undertaking for such a scientific approach in the neuroscience community.
124 :author: Dr. Thies Jochimsen
125 :affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Medical Physics Group, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany
127 :tags: lofs, team, software distribution, mentorship
128 :group: Research software projects
130 [...] distributing the software via NeuroDebian generates valuable feedback which is indispensable for the development of free software. When working with the NeuroDebian team in the past, I have found their members to be very cooperative, target-oriented and responsive.
134 :author: Dr. Gabriele Lohmann
135 :affiliation: Lipsia lead developer, Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
138 :group: Research software projects
140 It [NeuroDebian] has been and continues to be of great value in all of our projects [...]
144 :author: Valerio Lucio
145 :affiliation: Manager Information Systems, Center for Brain Imaging, New York University, New York City, USA
147 :tags: lofs, contributions, Debian
148 :group: Research software projects
150 The dinifti tool was one of the first to appear in Debian and ever since it's inclusion in the distribution, I have received invaluable feedback from the Debian community
154 :author: Dr. Eilif Muller
155 :affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
157 :tags: lofs, reproducibility, standartization, breadth
158 :group: Research software projects
160 I am constantly aware that software packaging and supporting user needs on diverse platforms represents a severe burden for developers. The NeuroDebian software platform addresses these problems for a good fraction of production environments in the field, while contributing to research reproducibility through software standardization.
164 :author: Prof. Jonathan Peirce
165 :affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
167 :tags: lofs, money, impact
168 :group: Research software projects
170 Having such a group of experts [NeuroDebian developers] that search for open-source software solutions, refine them and then make them trivially easy for users to install and try out is of absolutely invaluable benefit to the research community and to the funding bodies that would, otherwise, be paying much larger sums in commercial software licensing fees.
174 :author: Dr. Ariel Rokem
175 :affiliation: NiTime developer, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
177 :tags: lofs, frontier, contributions, speed, standartization, dissemination
178 :group: Research software projects
180 NeuroDebian is playing a key role in the creation of an ``eco-system'' of open-source solutions for neuroscience [...] The standards and practices disseminated by the NeuroDebian project allowed me to start using this tool [PsychoPy] efficiently and rapidly and to contribute back to the project within a few months.
184 :author: Prof. Stephen M. Smith
185 :affiliation: Associate Director, Centre for Functional Magnetic, Resonance Imaging of the Brain University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
187 :tags: lofs, contributions, support, Debian
188 :group: Research software projects
190 Since 2007 we completely rely on the NeuroDebian project to provide users of the Debian/Ubuntu platform with FSL software packages and corresponding technical support. [...] we have received a continuous stream of bug fixes and improvements that have been developed by members of the Debian community. [...] we were able to benefit from work of people that would not otherwise contribute to the development of FSL – without any additional investment of my lab, but solely due to FSL’s presence in the Debian archive.
194 :author: Paolo Avesani
195 :affiliation: Neuroinformatics Laboratory, Center for Mind/Brain sciences -CIMEC-, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
198 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
200 It [NeuroDebian] is of great advantage for the management of the computers of the lab because NeuroDebian allows to reduce the system administration costs.
204 :author: John A. Clithero
205 :affiliation: Ph.D. student, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
208 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
210 Both the software and online support forums provided by NeuroDebian have been invaluable for my machine-learning studies of fMRI data.
214 :author: Scott Gorlin
215 :affiliation: Ph.D. student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
217 :tags: lofs, speed, quality
218 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
220 I am writing this letter in support of the NeuroDebian team, whose efforts at producing high-quality free, open-source software have been invaluable to my graduate research.
224 :author: Dr. Attila Krajcsi
225 :affiliation: Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology Department, Eötvös University, Hungary
228 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
230 [NeuroDebian is] an extremely time saving solution
234 :author: Kaunitz Lisandro Nicolas
235 :affiliation: Center for Mind/Brain sciences -CIMEC-, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
238 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
240 [We] find it [NeuroDebian] to be the best tool for running classifiers on our neuroimaging data (EEG and MEG).
244 :author: Dr. Emanuele Olivetti
245 :affiliation: Center for Information Technology, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy
248 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
250 NeuroDebian has a major impact within our laboratory as quick and rich research environment for all our projects.
254 :author: Dr. Giuseppe Pagnoni
255 :affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
258 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
260 We consider NeuroDebian to be a truly commendable effort and an invaluable asset for the neuroimaging community.
264 :author: Prof. Stefan Pollmann
265 :affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany
268 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
270 My lab is using NeuroDebian for almost five years now [...] The minimal maintenance cost allow us to operate our research and computing infrastructure [...] even without a dedicated system administrator. Consequently, these resources could be invested into scientific personnel instead.
274 :author: Dr. Daqiang Sun
275 :affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
278 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
280 It [NeuroDebian] is and will continue to be invaluable in our multiple NIH-funded research projects. NeuroDebian nicely takes care of the burden of software deployment and management on my computers and allows me to concentrate on the imaging analysis itself [...]
284 :author: Dr. Gaël Varoquaux
285 :affiliation: Parietal project, INRIA, Neurospin research center, Gif sur Yvette, France
287 :tags: lofs, reproducibility, dissemination
288 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
290 The availability of a common platform [NeuroDebian] for many different neuroimaging software solutions makes it much easier to compare solutions and pick the tool of choice for a given research problem.
294 :author: Dr. Roberto Viviani
295 :affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III, University of Ulm, Germany
297 :tags: lofs, dissemination
298 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
300 Our research would be considerably more difficult without necessary software solutions transparently provided and supported by the NeuroDebian project.
303 :author: Patrik Andersson
304 :affiliation: Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
307 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
309 I have been using NeuroDebian for my work on multivariate classification of fMRI data [...] It is of great value, because I have access to both Windows and Debian OS on my laptop, where I do all my analysis.
312 :author: Dr. Felipe Picon
313 :affiliation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry of Federal University of Rio Grande do Su, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
316 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
318 We have been relying on NeuroDebian [...] for our work on Adult ADHD neuroimaging and find it to be very useful.
321 :author: Dr. Bhavani Shankara Bagepally
322 :affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health And Neruosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
324 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
326 Neuroscience software [...] easily available at a single point with hastle free installation and easy updating.
329 :author: Dr. C. J. Werner
330 :affiliation: Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
332 :tags: lofs, vm, teaching
333 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
335 [NeuroDebian] makes my lectures on neuroimaging much more convenient and ``hands-on'' by deploying virtual machines on student's laptops [...] a quick, elegant and cost-free solution, enabling students to work on real fMRI data in no time.
338 :author: Dr. Peter U. Tse
339 :affiliation: Associate Professor, Psychology and Brain Sciences Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
342 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
344 [...] vibrant NeuroDebian team [...] has been a great asset [...] showing their knowledge of methodological developments in the neuroscience field and making us aware of recent technological advances we could benefit from in our research.