Sinha, A; Appukuttan, S; Heitmann, S; Cakan, C; Jajcay, N; Metzner, C; Kern, FB; ... Stimberg, M; + view all Sinha, A; Appukuttan, S; Heitmann, S; Cakan, C; Jajcay, N; Metzner, C; Kern, FB; Vaziri, Z; Aussel, A; Huisman, B; Sandström, M; Avitabile, D; Nowotny, T; Knight, J; Linssen, C; Davison, AP; Rastogi, S; Stimberg, M; - view fewer (2021) INCF/OCNS Software Working Group. Presented at: INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2021, Online conference.

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Abstract

Neuroscience cannot exist without its ecosystem of community-developed software tools that many of us rely heavily upon. The newly established Software Working Group, a community working group shared by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) and the Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS), aims to undertake activities that focus on these software tools. Members of the working group will find and discuss relevant software tools, learn and teach how to use them, test and review them, and report bugs to inform tool developers of issues when required. The working group will also strive to learn how these tools work to get involved in their development and maintenance. The aim is to ensure that the tools that our community depends on continue to be maintained by actively engaged community members, and to bring end users into close collaboration with tool developers. Since the working group includes many tool developers, it also serves as a platform to exchange design and development ideas, and will assist in improving interoperability between related tools. Another related goal of the working group is to help members define, improve, and teach transferable skills in the area of modern research software development, particularly in but not limited to, computational neuroscience. The working group is designed to be flexible, instead of being linked to a particular goal. This approach allows the group to pursue timely projects that its members value and are interested in working on. The current goals of the working group are: - To set up and maintain a living document of the current best practices in research software development to serve as a reference for the research community, especially tool developers - To host regular “developer sessions” where developer teams of various tools discuss their development pipelines (or workflows)—to disseminate various development practices, and help potential contributors get started. The activities of the working group can be followed on its website at https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/

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