Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: NeuroDebian team <t...@neuro.debian.net>
* Package name : spm8 Version : 8.4010 Upstream Author : Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging <s...@jiscmail.ac.uk> * URL : http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm8/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Matlab/Octave Description : analysis of brain imaging data sequences Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) refers to the construction and assessment of spatially extended statistical processes used to test hypotheses about functional brain imaging data. These ideas have been instantiated in software that is called SPM. It is designed for the analysis of fMRI, PET, SPECT, EEG and MEG. This software is written to be used with Matlab and probably to most widely used piece of software in neuroimaging research. The authors state that Scilab and Octave are free clones of MATLAB, but SPM does not currently run on either. Porting SPM to these environments should be feasible but would require an important investment. It looks like a port is indeed feasible: MEX extensions already build fine with Octave, there are no dependencies to Mathworks toolboxes. For few API incompatibilities workarounds have already been identified. We plan to enable all non-GUI functionality that can be utilized within the NiPyPE framework (http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-nipype), which will also allow us to appropriately test the package. If you have some experience with Octave and/or SPM you're welcome to join this packaging effort. A git repository will appear on Alioth shortly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100809181829.30914.43170.report...@head1.hydra.dartmouth.edu
