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Scitran

The Stanford Project on Scientific Transparency (PoST) designed, implemented and contributed the first draft of the scientific transparency data management software. The software works with a MongoDB database, and it comprises a collection of tools to interact with the database (scitran/core), and an AngularJS front end to manage, view, search, annotate, and generally interact with the data.

The scitran code continues to be developed and extended by Flywheel Exchange and the Stanford PoST team in the Wandell lab through a cooperative agreement. The Stanford PoST team has transitioned its main focus from developing the scitran core functions to creating application programs that run by interacting with the scitran platform. The focus of that work is to develop methods that support reproducible methods in neuroscience research.

The scitran software has also been adopted by the Stanford Center for Reproducible Research, led by Professor Russell Poldrack and Dr. Chris Filo Gorgolewski. They have supported members of the Wandell lab to make adjustments to the scitran code to support the openFMRI project needs.

Flywheel offers support for installation and maintenance of these tools; such support is beyond the scope of the Wandell lab.

Scitran client

Neuroimaging scientsts may be particularly interested in the scitran client repository. The code in that repository coordinates with scitran by allowing users to interact with the scitran database from their own computers. Visit the scitran client wiki page to learn how we are developing that code to support reproducible research.

The Wandell lab gratefully acknowledge the Simons Foundation and particularly the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative for their support of the [Project on Scientific Transparency] (http://post.stanford.edu).