Montreal Neurological Institute going ‘open’ to accelerate science

Re:Montreal Neurological Institute going ‘open’ to accelerat... by jordigh on Friday January 22, 2016 @11:37AM (#10953736)

This is kind of exciting. I wonder if we'll be able to play with BigBrain:

https://muhc.ca/newsroom/article/first-ever-3d-atlas-brain-b...

> They include freely providing all results, data, software, and algorithms;

Wait, what? That's unheard of in science. They're really all going to be publishing their source code? All of it?

The MNI already has quite a bit of free software, such as MINC:

http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/MINC

But they really are going to publish everything else? That's amazing!

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Re:Montreal Neurological Institute going ‘open’ to accelerat... by tudorw on Friday January 22, 2016 @11:39AM (#10953754)

This is becoming a bit of a movement, without the underlying software to examine, scientific results cannot be fully verified independently, entropy makes the software conditions hard to replicate to repeat the exact experiments, so it's good to see a big name on board.

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