A Commitment to Open Source in Neuroscience

Padraig Gleeson; Andrew P Davison; R Angus Silver; Giorgio A Ascoli

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.10.013

A Commitment to Open Source in Neuroscience

Neuron. 2017 Dec 6;96(5):964-965. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.10.013.

Authors

Padraig Gleeson¹, Andrew P Davison², R Angus Silver¹, Giorgio A Ascoli³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
² Unité de Neuroscience, Information et Complexité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRE 3693, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
³ Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Electronic address: ascoli@gmu.edu.

PMID: 29216458
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.10.013

Abstract

Modern neuroscience increasingly relies on custom-developed software, but much of this is not being made available to the wider community. A group of researchers are pledging to make code they produce for data analysis and modeling open source, and are actively encouraging their colleagues to follow suit.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Access to Information*
Information Dissemination
Neurosciences / methods*
Software*