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.. _testimonials:
Testimonials
============
Here is some feedback we got from the neuroscience community on various
occasions. On this page it is grouped by its origin (i.e. `research
institutions`_, `research software projects`_, `individual laboratories and
researchers`_). Alternatively, you can read testimonials related to specific
topics:
* :ref:`testimonials_open_science`
* :ref:`testimonials_standardization`
* :ref:`testimonials_vm`
.. None so far replied
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.. Organizations
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.. .. quotes::
.. :group: Organizations
Research Institutions
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.. quotes::
:group: Research institutions
.. not implemented for now
.. :sections: group
.. quote::
:author: Christian Haselgrove
:affiliation: Vice President for Neuroinformatics at
Neuromorphometrics, Inc; University of Massachusetts Medical School
:date: 2013-02-06
:tags: email, derivatives, management
Developing informatics infrastructure often involves building
complex systems that require interaction between existing
components such as software and atlases. NeuroDebian makes it
trivial to manage the components of these systems, freeing me to
focus on the novel and important aspects of my work.
Research Software Projects
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.. quotes::
:group: Research software projects
.. quote::
:author: Stephan Gerhard, et al.
:date: 2011-06-06
:tags: practices, quality
:source: The Connectome Viewer Toolkit, Front. Neuroinform. 5:3. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00003
For proper software packaging and distribution, the NeuroDebian project provides professional expertise and infrastructure.
.. quote::
:author: Chuck Theobald
:affiliation: Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, MRIConvert/mcverter build master and developer
:tags: email, impact, software distribution, upstream, dissemination
:date: 2013-02-06
As a system administrator, I support the efforts of a number of
researchers who use fMRI analysis software. I was overjoyed to find
the NeuroDebian repository, a one-stop shop for nearly every
software package the researchers use. The work of the NeuroDebian
Team greatly simplifies the task of providing our researchers the
best software available, and I consider the repository a vital part
of my professional life. As a maintainer on the MRIConvert
project, I find that NeuroDebian provides a valuable venue for
dissemination of our software. It would not be possible to reach
the same wide audience without the NeuroDebian repository.
.. quote::
:author: Dr. Kiyotaka Nemoto
:affiliation: University of Tsukuba
:tags: email, derivatives, time
:date: 2013-02-06
Neurodebian is the best solution for researchers in neuroscience.
Everybody should have experienced wasting so much time in just setting
up software. With Neurodebian repository, you can easily setup many
useful software packages and focus on your research. I recommend this
repository to everyone who is interested in using Linux in
neuroscience.
.. quote::
:author: Dr. Andrew Janke
:affiliation: Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Australia
:date: 2013-02-06
:tags: email, upstream, stability, versioning, provenance, vm,
reproducibility, collaboration
We use NeuroDebian on a daily basis as it provides a stable and
versioned software base for analysis. This is critical as it allows us
to maintain data provenance, something that is often sorely lacking.
Our collaborators who don't quite have their heads around Linux yet
are pointed to the NeuroDebian Virtual Machine, it allows them to run
an identical analysis environment to us regardless of where they are
or operating system.
.. quote::
:author: Nina Preuss
:affiliation: PMP, nitrc.org
:date: 2013-02-06
:tags: disqus, money, quality, contributions, cloud, derivatives
NITRC-CE, or the NITRC Computational Environment, on the Amazon
Marketplace wouldn't have happened as quickly and thus cost effectively
without leveraging NeuroDebian's good works. We appreciate their
critical contribution to the neuroimaging compute community.
.. quote::
:author: Sebastiaan Mathôt
:affiliation: Aix-Marseille université, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive
:date: 2013-02-06
:tags: email, impact
For any neuroscientist that relies on open-source software,
NeuroDebian is the single most important resource.
.. quote::
:author: Sebastian Eichelbaum
:affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Image and Signal Processing Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany
:date: 2013-02-11
:tags: email, breadth, dissemination
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.
.. quote::
:author: Francisco Pereira
:affiliation: Siemens Corporate Research
:date: 2013-02-06
:tags: gplus, time
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.
.. quote::
:author: Alexander Wiebel
:affiliation: OpenWalnut project, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
:date: 2013-02-19
:tags: email, breadth, dissemination
It is great to have NeuroDebian as a platform to bring our
visualization system OpenWalnut to a broad audience together with the large variety of
related data analysis tools available in NeuroDebian.
Individual Laboratories and Researchers
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.. quotes::
:group: Individual laboratories and researchers
.. quote::
:author: Prof. Petr Hlustik
:affiliation: Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Palacky University School of Medicine and University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic
:date: 2010-10-11
:tags: breadth
[...] those wonderful tools in Debian Neuro [...] make my life as a
researcher who also maintains a bunch of Debian boxes so much easier.
.. quote::
:author: Dr. Jo Etzel
:affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University
:date: 2012-03-15
:tags: vm
I am a dedicated R user ... and have a Windows box. But this
afternoon I (finally) downloaded and installed NeuroDebian and the
VirtualBox, ran AFNI, and generated the files I needed, all within
about an hour and a half. [...] not bad, considering that I know
essentially no Linux/Unix. So here's a big "thanks!" :)
.. quote::
:author: Vincent Kersten
:affiliation: University Medical Center Utrecht
:tags: email, standardization, money, Debian
:date: 2013-02-06
Neurodebian provides us with a consitent way of sotware packaging
and upgrades, eliminating tedious compiles and home-brew setups,
while seamlessly integrating with the Debian distribution. Excellent
and very valuable work, saving costs and difficult to spot
errors. High five Michael, Yaroslav and team! Keep them packages
coming!
.. quote::
:author: Christian Stephan-Otto
:affiliation: Neuroimaging Research Group, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain
:date: 2013-02-06
:tags: email, vm, breadth
Since I started using a NeuroDebian virtual machine on win64 months
ago I am relying more and more on its diverse tools, from
population-specific template creation to pipelining the analysis of
fMRI, DTI and morphology studies. There is a great chance I will
end up working exclusively with NeuroDebian!
.. quote::
:author: Mathias Goldau
:affiliation: Cortical Networks, Max-Planck-Institute for neurological research, Cologne, Germany
:date: 2013-02-07
:tags: email, time, breadth
Without NeuroDebian we would have wasted precious time for
deploying software, and we wouldn't have tested so many software
tools.
.. quote::
:author: Joseph Viviano
:affiliation: York University, Toronto Canada
:date: 2013-02-19
:tags: email, reproducibility, versioning, impact
NeuroDebian not only helped our lab focus on research and producing
results with FOSS, it has also made it much easier to maintain
version control, facilitating data portability and
reproducibility. I see this as the most important current project
working towards transparent neuroscientific methods with clear and
reproducible results.
.. quote::
:author: Dr. Bertram Walter
:affiliation: Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Germany
:date: 2013-02-22
:tags: email, money, maintenance, support, quality
Neurodebian provides not only a platform for neuroscience
applications that makes maintenance of collections of tools
easy. The staff also gives a very quick support in case of - very
rare - problems. Altogether Neurodebian saves a lot of time and
money.
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