6 Here is some feedback we got from the neuroscience community on various
7 occasions. On this page it is grouped by its origin (i.e. `research
8 institutions`_, `research software projects`_, `individual laboratories and
9 researchers`_). Alternatively, you can read testimonials related to specific
12 * :ref:`testimonials_open_science`
13 * :ref:`testimonials_standardization`
14 * :ref:`testimonials_vm`
16 .. None so far replied
22 .. :group: Organizations
29 :group: Research institutions
31 .. not implemented for now
35 :author: Christian Haselgrove
36 :affiliation: Vice President for Neuroinformatics at
37 Neuromorphometrics, Inc; University of Massachusetts Medical School
39 :tags: email, derivatives, management
41 Developing informatics infrastructure often involves building
42 complex systems that require interaction between existing
43 components such as software and atlases. NeuroDebian makes it
44 trivial to manage the components of these systems, freeing me to
45 focus on the novel and important aspects of my work.
48 Research Software Projects
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52 :group: Research software projects
56 :author: Stephan Gerhard, et al.
58 :tags: practices, quality
59 :source: The Connectome Viewer Toolkit, Front. Neuroinform. 5:3. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00003
61 For proper software packaging and distribution, the NeuroDebian project provides professional expertise and infrastructure.
64 :author: Chuck Theobald
65 :affiliation: Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, MRIConvert/mcverter build master and developer
66 :tags: email, impact, software distribution, upstream, dissemination
69 As a system administrator, I support the efforts of a number of
70 researchers who use fMRI analysis software. I was overjoyed to find
71 the NeuroDebian repository, a one-stop shop for nearly every
72 software package the researchers use. The work of the NeuroDebian
73 Team greatly simplifies the task of providing our researchers the
74 best software available, and I consider the repository a vital part
75 of my professional life. As a maintainer on the MRIConvert
76 project, I find that NeuroDebian provides a valuable venue for
77 dissemination of our software. It would not be possible to reach
78 the same wide audience without the NeuroDebian repository.
81 :author: Dr. Kiyotaka Nemoto
82 :affiliation: University of Tsukuba
83 :tags: email, derivatives, time
86 Neurodebian is the best solution for researchers in neuroscience.
87 Everybody should have experienced wasting so much time in just setting
88 up software. With Neurodebian repository, you can easily setup many
89 useful software packages and focus on your research. I recommend this
90 repository to everyone who is interested in using Linux in
94 :author: Dr. Andrew Janke
95 :affiliation: Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Australia
97 :tags: email, upstream, stability, versioning, provenance, vm,
98 reproducibility, collaboration
100 We use NeuroDebian on a daily basis as it provides a stable and
101 versioned software base for analysis. This is critical as it allows us
102 to maintain data provenance, something that is often sorely lacking.
103 Our collaborators who don't quite have their heads around Linux yet
104 are pointed to the NeuroDebian Virtual Machine, it allows them to run
105 an identical analysis environment to us regardless of where they are
110 :affiliation: PMP, nitrc.org
112 :tags: disqus, money, quality, contributions, cloud, derivatives
114 NITRC-CE, or the NITRC Computational Environment, on the Amazon
115 Marketplace wouldn't have happened as quickly and thus cost effectively
116 without leveraging NeuroDebian's good works. We appreciate their
117 critical contribution to the neuroimaging compute community.
120 :author: Sebastiaan Mathôt
121 :affiliation: Aix-Marseille université, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive
125 For any neuroscientist that relies on open-source software,
126 NeuroDebian is the single most important resource.
129 :author: Sebastian Eichelbaum
130 :affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Image and Signal Processing Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
132 :tags: email, breadth, dissemination
134 With NeuroDebian we can utilize thousands of tools, providing the foundation for our research. On the other hand, we can provide our tools to a large community easily.
138 :author: Francisco Pereira
139 :affiliation: Siemens Corporate Research
143 Thanks to NeuroDebian I now have to spend my time thinking hard about what to do with the tools, rather than leisurely installing them and tracking dependencies.
146 :author: Alexander Wiebel
147 :affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
149 :tags: email, breadth, dissemination
151 It is great to have NeuroDebian as a platform to bring our
152 visualization system OpenWalnut to a broad audience together with the large variety of
153 related data analysis tools available in NeuroDebian.
157 Individual Laboratories and Researchers
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161 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
165 :author: Prof. Petr Hlustik
166 :affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Palacky University School of Medicine and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic
170 [...] those wonderful tools in Debian Neuro [...] make my life as a
171 researcher who also maintains a bunch of Debian boxes so much easier.
174 :author: Dr. Jo Etzel
175 :affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University
179 I am a dedicated R user ... and have a Windows box. But this
180 afternoon I (finally) downloaded and installed NeuroDebian and the
181 VirtualBox, ran AFNI, and generated the files I needed, all within
182 about an hour and a half. [...] not bad, considering that I know
183 essentially no Linux/Unix. So here's a big "thanks!" :)
186 :author: Vincent Kersten
187 :affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht
188 :tags: email, standardization, money, Debian
191 Neurodebian provides us with a consitent way of sotware packaging
192 and upgrades, eliminating tedious compiles and home-brew setups,
193 while seamlessly integrating with the Debian distribution. Excellent
194 and very valuable work, saving costs and difficult to spot
195 errors. High five Michael, Yaroslav and team! Keep them packages
199 :author: Christian Stephan-Otto
200 :affiliation: Neuroimaging Research Group, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain
202 :tags: email, vm, breadth
204 Since I started using a NeuroDebian virtual machine on win64 months
205 ago I am relying more and more on its diverse tools, from
206 population-specific template creation to pipelining the analysis of
207 fMRI, DTI and morphology studies. There is a great chance I will
208 end up working exclusively with NeuroDebian!
211 :author: Mathias Goldau
212 :affiliation: Cortical Networks, Max-Planck-Institute for neurological research, Cologne, Germany
214 :tags: email, time, breadth
216 Without NeuroDebian we would have wasted precious time for
217 deploying software, and we wouldn't have tested so many software
221 :author: Joseph Viviano
222 :affiliation: York University, Toronto Canada
224 :tags: email, reproducibility, versioning, impact
226 NeuroDebian not only helped our lab focus on research and producing
227 results with FOSS, it has also made it much easier to maintain
228 version control, facilitating data portability and
229 reproducibility. I see this as the most important current project
230 working towards transparent neuroscientific methods with clear and
231 reproducible results.
234 :author: Dr. Bertram Walter
235 :affiliation: Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Germany
237 :tags: email, money, maintenance, support, quality
239 Neurodebian provides not only a platform for neuroscience
240 applications that makes maintenance of collections of tools
241 easy. The staff also gives a very quick support in case of - very
242 rare - problems. Altogether Neurodebian saves a lot of time and