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5 :author: Prof. Thomas J. Grabowski, Jr.
6 :affiliation: Director, Integrated Brain Imaging Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
8 :tags: lofs, speed, frontier
9 :group: Research institutions
11 [...] 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 [...]
15 :author: Prof. Daniel Y. Kimberg
16 :affiliation: Core Director, Data Processing Facility, Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
18 :tags: lofs, software distribution, quality, reproducibility, practices, impact
19 :group: Research institutions
21 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.
25 :author: Prof. Bennett Landman
26 :affiliation: Director of the Center for Computational Imaging, Vanderbilt University Institute of Image Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
28 :tags: lofs, software distribution, quality
29 :group: Research institutions
31 NeuroDebian provides an excellent platform for software distribution [...]
35 :author: Prof. Barak A. Pearlmutter
36 :affiliation: Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
38 :tags: lofs, software distribution, sharing, money, speed
39 :group: Research institutions
41 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.
45 :author: Prof. Russell A. Poldrack
46 :affiliation: Director, Imaging Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
48 :tags: lofs, breadth, impact
49 :group: Research institutions
51 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.
55 :author: Dr. Bertrand Thirion
56 :affiliation: Head of the Parietal research group at Neurospin, Gif sur Yvette, France
59 :group: Research institutions
61 [NeuroDebian is] extremely useful in providing state of the art solutions to numerous standard problems encountered in the analysis of our complex data.
66 :affiliation: IT system administrator, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
68 :tags: lofs, software distribution, frontier
69 :group: Research institutions
71 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
75 :author: Dr. Matthew Brett
76 :affiliation: Specialist researcher, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
78 :tags: lofs, practices, team, sharing
79 :group: Research software projects
81 [...] 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.
85 :author: Prof. Bruce Fischl
86 :affiliation: Director, Computational Core at Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
88 :tags: lofs, perspective, software distribution
89 :group: Research software projects
91 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.
95 :author: Dr. Satrajit Ghosh
96 :affiliation: Research scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
98 :tags: lofs, software distribution
99 :group: Research software projects
101 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.
105 :author: Valentin Haenel
106 :affiliation: Psignifit and pyoptical developer, Modellierung Kognitiver Prozesse, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
108 :tags: lofs, reproducibility
109 :group: Research software projects
111 [ [...] 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.
115 :author: Dr. Thies Jochimsen
116 :affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Medical Physics Group, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany
118 :tags: lofs, team, software distribution, mentorship
119 :group: Research software projects
121 [...] 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.
125 :author: Dr. Gabriele Lohmann
126 :affiliation: Lipsia lead developer, Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
129 :group: Research software projects
131 It [NeuroDebian] has been and continues to be of great value in all of our projects [...]
135 :author: Valerio Lucio
136 :affiliation: Manager Information Systems, Center for Brain Imaging, New York University, New York City, USA
138 :tags: lofs, contributions, Debian
139 :group: Research software projects
141 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
145 :author: Dr. Eilif Muller
146 :affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
148 :tags: lofs, reproducibility, standartization, breadth
149 :group: Research software projects
151 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.
155 :author: Prof. Jonathan Peirce
156 :affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
158 :tags: lofs, money, impact
159 :group: Research software projects
161 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.
165 :author: Dr. Ariel Rokem
166 :affiliation: NiTime developer, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
168 :tags: lofs, frontier, contributions, speed, standartization, dissemination
169 :group: Research software projects
171 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.
175 :author: Prof. Stephen M. Smith
176 :affiliation: Associate Director, Centre for Functional Magnetic, Resonance Imaging of the Brain University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
178 :tags: lofs, contributions, support, Debian
179 :group: Research software projects
181 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.
185 :author: Paolo Avesani
186 :affiliation: Neuroinformatics Laboratory, Center for Mind/Brain sciences -CIMEC-, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
189 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
191 It [NeuroDebian] is of great advantage for the management of the computers of the lab because NeuroDebian allows to reduce the system administration costs.
195 :author: John A. Clithero
196 :affiliation: Ph.D. student, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
199 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
201 Both the software and online support forums provided by NeuroDebian have been invaluable for my machine-learning studies of fMRI data.
205 :author: Scott Gorlin
206 :affiliation: Ph.D. student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
208 :tags: lofs, speed, quality
209 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
211 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.
215 :author: Dr. Attila Krajcsi
216 :affiliation: Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology Department, Eötvös University, Hungary
219 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
221 [NeuroDebian is] an extremely time saving solution
225 :author: Kaunitz Lisandro Nicolas
226 :affiliation: Center for Mind/Brain sciences -CIMEC-, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
229 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
231 [We] find it [NeuroDebian] to be the best tool for running classifiers on our neuroimaging data (EEG and MEG).
235 :author: Dr. Emanuele Olivetti
236 :affiliation: Center for Information Technology, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy
239 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
241 NeuroDebian has a major impact within our laboratory as quick and rich research environment for all our projects.
245 :author: Dr. Giuseppe Pagnoni
246 :affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
249 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
251 We consider NeuroDebian to be a truly commendable effort and an invaluable asset for the neuroimaging community.
255 :author: Prof. Stefan Pollmann
256 :affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany
259 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
261 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.
265 :author: Dr. Daqiang Sun
266 :affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
269 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
271 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 [...]
275 :author: Dr. Gaël Varoquaux
276 :affiliation: Parietal project, INRIA, Neurospin research center, Gif sur Yvette, France
278 :tags: lofs, reproducibility, dissemination
279 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
281 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.
285 :author: Dr. Roberto Viviani
286 :affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III, University of Ulm, Germany
288 :tags: lofs, dissemination
289 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
291 Our research would be considerably more difficult without necessary software solutions transparently provided and supported by the NeuroDebian project.