12 .. :group: Organizations
18 * :ref:`testimonials_open_science`
19 * :ref:`testimonials_standardization`
20 * :ref:`testimonials_vm`
27 :group: Research institutions
29 .. not implemented for now
33 Research Software Projects
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37 :group: Research software projects
40 :author: Stephan Gerhard, et al.
42 :tags: practices, quality
43 :source: The Connectome Viewer Toolkit, Front. Neuroinform. 5:3. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00003
45 For proper software packaging and distribution, the NeuroDebian project provides professional expertise and infrastructure.
48 :author: Chuck Theobald
49 :affiliation: Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, MRIConvert/mcverter build master and developer
50 :tags: email, impact, software distribution, upstream, dissemination
53 As a system administrator, I support the efforts of a number of
54 researchers who use fMRI analysis software. I was overjoyed to find
55 the NeuroDebian repository, a one-stop shop for nearly every
56 software package the researchers use. The work of the NeuroDebian
57 Team greatly simplifies the task of providing our researchers the
58 best software available, and I consider the repository a vital part
59 of my professional life. As a maintainer on the MRIConvert
60 project, I find that NeuroDebian provides a valuable venue for
61 dissemination of our software. It would not be possible to reach
62 the same wide audience without the NeuroDebian repository.
65 :author: Dr. Kiyotaka Nemoto
66 :affiliation: University of Tsukuba
67 :tags: email, derivatives, time
70 Neurodebian is the best solution for researchers in neuroscience.
71 Everybody should have experienced wasting so much time in just setting
72 up software. With Neurodebian repository, you can easily setup many
73 useful software packages and focus on your research. I recommend this
74 repository to everyone who is interested in using Linux in
78 :author: Dr. Andrew Janke
79 :affiliation: Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Australia
81 :tags: email, upstream, stability, versioning, provenance, vm,
82 reproducibility, collaboration
84 We use NeuroDebian on a daily basis as it provides a stable and
85 versioned software base for analysis. This is critical as it allows us
86 to maintain data provenance, something that is often sorely lacking.
87 Our collaborators who don't quite have their heads around Linux yet
88 are pointed to the NeuroDebian Virtual Machine, it allows them to run
89 an identical analysis environment to us regardless of where they are
93 :author: Christian Haselgrove
94 :affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School
96 :tags: email, derivatives, management
98 Developing informatics infrastructure often involves building
99 complex systems that require interaction between existing
100 components such as software and atlases. NeuroDebian makes it
101 trivial to manage the components of these systems, freeing me to
102 focus on the novel and important aspects of my work.
106 :affiliation: PMP, nitrc.org
108 :tags: disqus, money, quality, contributions
110 NITRC-CE, or the NITRC Computational Environment, on the Amazon
111 Marketplace wouldn't have happened as quickly and thus cost effectively
112 without leveraging NeuroDebian's good works. We appreciative their
113 critical contribution to the neuroimaging compute community.
116 :author: Sebastiaan Mathôt
117 :affiliation: Aix-Marseille université, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive
121 For any neuroscientist that relies on open-source software,
122 NeuroDebian is the single most important resource.
126 Individual Laboratories and Researchers
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130 :group: Individual laboratories and researchers
134 :author: Prof. Petr Hlustik
135 :affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Palacky University School of Medicine and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic
139 [...] those wonderful tools in Debian Neuro [...] make my life as a
140 researcher who also maintains a bunch of Debian boxes so much easier.
143 :author: Dr. Jo Etzel
144 :affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University
148 I am a dedicated R user ... and have a Windows box. But this
149 afternoon I (finally) downloaded and installed NeuroDebian and the
150 VirtualBox, ran AFNI, and generated the files I needed, all within
151 about an hour and a half. [...] not bad, considering that I know
152 essentially no Linux/Unix. So here's a big "thanks!" :)
155 :author: Vincent Kersten
156 :affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht
157 :tags: email, standardization, money, Debian
160 Neurodebian provides us with a consitent way of sotware packaging
161 and upgrades, eliminating tedious compiles and home-brew setups,
162 while seamlessly integrating with the Debian distribution. Excellent
163 and very valuable work, saving costs and difficult to spot
164 errors. High five Michael, Yaroslav and team! Keep them packages
168 :author: Christian Stephan-Otto
169 :affiliation: Neuroimaging Research Group, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain
171 :tags: email, vm, breadth
173 Since I started using a NeuroDebian virtual machine on win64 months
174 ago I am relying more and more on its diverse tools, from
175 population-specific template creation to pipelining the analysis of
176 fMRI, DTI and morphology studies. There is a great chance I will
177 end up working exclusively with NeuroDebian!