Neurodesk: an accessible, flexible and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging

Nat Methods. 2024 May;21(5):804-808. doi: 10.1038/s41592-023-02145-x. Epub 2024 Jan 8.

Abstract

Neuroimaging research requires purpose-built analysis software, which is challenging to install and may produce different results across computing environments. The community-oriented, open-source Neurodesk platform ( https://www.neurodesk.org/ ) harnesses a comprehensive and growing suite of neuroimaging software containers. Neurodesk includes a browser-accessible virtual desktop, command-line interface and computational notebook compatibility, allowing for accessible, flexible, portable and fully reproducible neuroimaging analysis on personal workstations, high-performance computers and the cloud.

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Neuroimaging* / methods
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface