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Quotes from NIH R01 grant proposal letters of recommendation
:tags: lofs, software distribution, sharing, money, speed
:group: Research institutions
- 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.
+ 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.
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:tags: lofs, breadth, impact
:group: Research institutions
- 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.
+ 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.
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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.
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+ :author: Prof. Brian Avants
+ :affiliation: Research Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
+ :date: 2010-09-16
+ :tags: lofs, practices, standardization, mentorship, dissemination, impact
+ :group: Research software projects
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+ The NeuroDebian team taught me a great deal about how to systematize software development for reliable dissemination [...] This speaks very highly of the deep skillset and commitment to user support represented in the NeuroDebian project, which will have high impact on the field and help standardize both the analysis and the interpretation of neuroimaging data.
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:author: Dr. Matthew Brett
:affiliation: Specialist researcher, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
:author: Sebastian Eichelbaum
:affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Image and Signal Processing Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
:date: 2011-06-30
- :tags: lofs, mentoring
+ :tags: lofs, mentorship
:group: Research software projects
We are currently preparing our first software-release in NeuroDebian and found it to be easy and straight-forward with a great support.
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.
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+ :author: Stephan Gerhard
+ :affiliation: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
+ :date: 2011-06-21
+ :tags: lofs, support, Debian, open science
+ :group: Research software projects
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+ The Debian project provides the scientific community with a truly universal operating system. The breadth and quality of its community-driven development and technical support is superior to many other available commercial alternatives. It provides a sound basis for the open science movement.
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:author: Dr. Satrajit Ghosh
:affiliation: Research scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
:author: Dr. Eilif Muller
:affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
:date: 2010-09-09
- :tags: lofs, reproducibility, standartization, breadth
+ :tags: lofs, reproducibility, standardization, breadth
:group: Research software projects
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.
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.
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+ :author: Dr. Fernando Perez
+ :affiliation: IPython developer, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
+ :date: 2010-09-08
+ :tags: lofs, contributions, team
+ :group: Research software projects
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+ Their [NeuroDebian developers] commitment to strongly tested, validated and documented tools for computational-based research in neuroscience is exemplary, and we owe them a great debt of gratitude for the contributions they have already made [...]
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:author: Dr. Ariel Rokem
:affiliation: NiTime developer, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
:date: 2010-09-15
- :tags: lofs, frontier, contributions, speed, standartization, dissemination
+ :tags: lofs, frontier, contributions, speed, standardization, dissemination
:group: Research software projects
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.
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:author: Prof. Hiroyuki Akama
- :affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan begin{lofquote} I am a heavy user of NeuroDebian-Virtual Machine on Windows 64-bit platform. end{lofquote}
+ :affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
:date: 2011-06-15
:tags: lofs, vm
:group: Individual laboratories and researchers
:tags: lofs, support
:group: Individual laboratories and researchers
- Both the software and online support forums provided by NeuroDebian have been invaluable for my machine-learning studies of fMRI data.
+ Both the software and online support forums provided by NeuroDebian have been invaluable for my machine-learning studies of fMRI data.
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:tags: lofs, speed, quality
:group: Individual laboratories and researchers
- 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.
+ 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.
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:author: Jonas Kubilius
:affiliation: Ph.D. student, Laboratories of Biological and Experimental Psychology, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
:date: 2011-06-18
- :tags: lofs, reproducibility, vm, impact, sharing
+ :tags: lofs, reproducibility, vm, impact, sharing, open science
:group: Individual laboratories and researchers
[...] NeuroDebian allows both researchers and the public to easily replicate the entire experimental procedure, a feature rendered difficult or often impossible by proprietary software packages that most scientists rely on nowadays. I have been increasingly using NeuroDebian in a Virtual Machine because Linux operating systems are not supported by the university. [...] Moreover, powered by NeuroDebian’s openness, I see a reason to publish the full code of our experimental and analysis scripts. [NeuroDebian] makes the goal of open science finally viable.
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