NeuroFedora SIG
The NeuroFedora SIG's goal is to make Fedora the best platform for neuroscience and neuroimaging research.
Members
Morgan Hough (mhough) <morgan.hough@gmail.com>
Igor Gnatenko (Ignatenkobrain) <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
NeuroFedora Packages
Interesting software waiting for being packaged
- dipy
- expyriment
- nipy - A python package for analysis of neuroimaging data
- fenics - A finite element package
- meshfix - algorithms operating on meshes
Work in progress
| Package | People involved | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFNI | Caesarae | WIP | depends on an old UI lib |
| FieldTrip | mhough | WIP | |
| MNE | Ignatenkobrain | WIP | |
| MRTrix3 - MRTrix3 is a analysis package for diffusion data | Caesarae | WIP | |
| nest - nest is a simulator for spiking neural networks | ankursinha | WIP | depends on review request |
| nrn - nrn is a neural simulator package | ankursinha | WIP | depends on review request |
| python-brian2 - Brian is a simulator for spiking neural networks | ankursinha | WIP | depends on review request |
| python-neo - neo is a package for electrophysiology | ankursinha | WIP | depends on review request |
| python-pynn - pynn is a simulator for spiking neural networks | ankursinha | WIP | depends on review request |
| SPM | mhough | WIP |
New packages
When submitting a new neuro-related package for review, please add "Blocks: NeuroFedora-SIG" to your review-request. After the review has been granted don't forget to remove it, when filing the SCM-request, please.
When you are filing your SCM-admin-request, you should make sure to request InitialCC for "neurofedora-sig".
Example:
New Package SCM Request ======================= Package Name: pkgname Short Description: summary of package Owners: foo bar Branches: f21 f22 f23 el6 el7 InitialCC: nf-sig
Packages waiting for your review
You can find them on the NeuroFedora-SIG review-tracker.
We would be glad, if you would take one or a few. :)
Existing packages
You can't find the existing neurofedora-related packages on the PkgDB yet but we are working on it.
Categories
There is a good amount of overlap with other SIGs and Spins and some categories of NeuroFedora can be seen as BigData, Fedora-Medical, ML, Octave and SciTech in general. The classification that NeuroDebian uses is as follows:
*Packages for Distributed Computing *Packages for Electrophysiology *Packages for Magnetic Reasonance Imaging *Packages for Modeling of neural systems *Packages for Neuroscience Datasets *Packages for Neuroscience Education *Packages for Psychophysics
What are we going to do?
We are first planning to match packages from the debian-based neurodebian project excluding the debian packaging related tools. The second phase would be to publish a paper outlining the work here again following the neurodebian project paper. The third phase would be to publish a research paper describing new tools available in NeuroFedora
Participation
There is no formal process for participating; joining the mailing list, hanging out on IRC, or participating in meetings are all great ways to get involved.
A little self-introduction on the mailing list would be nice, too. And, if you want to, add yourself to our members-section above.
Mailing list
- Join: neurofedora
- Archives: read
IRC
We will likely hang out on irc.freenode.net at #neurofedora.
Haven't used IRC for communication before? More information on how to use IRC is available here.
Meetings
We shall have them, and see how it goes.
more to come soon.