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# Open Science Conferences, Meetups, and other Community Events


=Open Science Conferences, Meetups, and other Community Events=
## Cross-discipline


==Cross-discipline==
## Discipline-specific

* [https://github.com/mozillascience/studyGroupLessons/blob/master/whereWeAre.geojson Mozilla Science Map of Study Groups]
* [http://www.mozillascience.org/toronto-open-science-code-sprint-2015 Open Science Code Sprint 2015] - March 7-8, 2015 Toronto, Canada
* [http://sodata.org/ SO Data (Scientific Open Data)] - March 26, 2015, Paris, France
* [http://www.year-network.com/activities/year-annual-conference-2015 Young European Associated Researchers (YEAR) Network Annual Conference] - May 11-12, 2015, Helsinki, Finland
* [https://twitter.com/opencon2015 OpenCon] - November, 2015 Somewhere in Europe (Further details soon...)
* [http://opendrinks.org/ Open Drinks]
* [http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Open-Science-Meetup/ New York Open Science Meetup]

==Discipline-specific==


Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.
Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.


===Astronomy===
# Open Source Scientific Software Projects
* [http://astrohackweek.github.io/2015/ Astro Hack Week] - 9/28/15-10/02/15
* [http://python-in-astronomy.github.io/ Python in Astronomy] - 4/20/15-4/25/15


===Neuroscience===
## Cross-discipline


* [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/event/science-broken-can-fix/ Is Science Broken? If so, how can we fix it?] - 17th March 2015, 4pm – 6.45pm, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK
## Discipline-specific
* [http://brainhack.org/ Brainhack] - next Hackathon: June 12-14, 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii
* [http://codeneuro.org/ CodeNeuro] - next Hackathon: April 10, 2015 in NYC

===Ecology===

* [http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opendata-reproducibility-workshop-tickets-15993410722 Open Data and Reproducibility Workshop: the Good Scientist in the Open Science era] - April 21, 2015 in London, UK

=Open Source Scientific Software Projects=

==Cross-discipline==

* [http://interdisciplinaryprogramming.com/ Interdisciplinary Programming] - a website to connect software developers and scientists (possibly inactive)
* [http://alpharb.com/ Alpha Research Base] - another website to connect open source developers and scientists
* [http://www.sciencesolved.com ScienceSolved] - still yet another website to connect open source developers and scientists
* [http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/ ImageJ]
* [http://itk.org Insight Toolkit (ITK)] - scientific image analysis
* [http://www.r-project.org/ R] - a programming language for statistical analysis
* [http://www.numpy.org/ NumPy]
* [http://www.scipy.org/ SciPy]
* [http://www.julialang.org/ Julia]
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave]
* [http://www.taverna.org.uk/ Taverna] - a workflow management system for assembling and running analysis pipelines (as in bioinformatics or astronomy)
* [http://www.nextflow.io Nextflow] - pipelining software
* [https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language Common Workflow Language] - a group working to standardize data analysis workflows
* [https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central Biostars Backend] - software to run a Q&A site for scientific communities

==Discipline-specific==


Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.
Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.


===Aeronautics and astronautics===
# Open Science Projects with an Educational or Instructional Focus


* [http://www.sunpy.org/ SunPy], a solar physics library actively maintained by NASA GSFC.
## Cross-discipline
* [http://makerplane.org/ MakerPlane], a project for building personal planes ([http://opensource.com/life/13/1/open-source-aviation-makerplane article])


===Atmospheric sciences===
## Discipline-specific

* [http://cmascenter.org/cmaq/ CMAQ] - EPA's development project: a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations
* [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/ GEMPAK] - soon to be replaced with [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/ AWIPS II] - a weather forecasting, display and analysis package, lead developer: National Weather Service
* [http://www.openmadrigal.org/ OpenMadrigal] - a database for accessing/archiving geospace data (does geospace == atmospheric science?)

===Astronomy===

* [http://jmars.asu.edu/ Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS)]

===Biochemistry===

* [http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page BioPython] - a set of tools for biological computation written in Python
* [http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Main_Page BioPerl]
* [http://openbabel.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenBabel] - allows anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas

===Biology===

* [https://synbiota.com/ Synbiota] - synthetic biology development platform
* [https://galaxyproject.org/ Galaxy] - workflow manager for bioinformatics
* [http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/products/omero OMERO] - a software suite for managing microscopy data

===Biomedical Engineering===

* [http://biosig.sourceforge.net/ BioSig] - an open source software library for biomedical signal processing of biosignals such as EEG, ECoG, ECG, EOG and EMG
* [http://opensim.stanford.edu/work/index.html OpenSim] - tool for modeling and simulation of movement
* [https://github.com/jodogne/Orthanc Orthanc] - an open source DICOM server

===Geography===

* [http://landscapecollaborative.org/roadright/ Roadright] - a tool for modeling road maintenance

===Geosciences===

* [https://code.google.com/p/geoforge/ GeoForge]

===Linguistics===

* [http://nltk.org/ Python Natural Language Toolkit]
* [https://github.com/joshua-decoder/joshua Joshua Machine Translation Toolkit]
* [http://www.kura.ats.lmu.de/index.php Kura], a multi-user open source linguistic database
* [http://www.apertium.org/ Apertium] open source machine translation
* [http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ Praat] open source tool used to annotate speech / phonetics
* [http://textblob.readthedocs.org/en/dev/ TextBlob] Natural Language Processing tool
* [http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes/toolkit/ DISSECT] Distributional Semantics toolkit

===Materials Science===

* [http://espressomd.org/wordpress/about/summary/ ESPRESSO] - a software package for performing and analyzing simulations of “coarse-grained” models as used in soft-matter research

===Mathematics===

* [http://www.sagemath.org/ Sage Math] - a popular software system combining many projects into a common Python-based interface
* [http://www.gap-system.org/ GAP] - a system for computational discrete algebra
* [http://cocoa.dima.unige.it/ CoCoA] - a system for computations in commutative algebra
* [http://gramian.de emgr] - empirical gramian framework for model reduction and system identification

===Neuroscience===

* [http://neuro.debian.net/ NeuroDebian] - a turnkey Linux distribution with major open source neuroimaging packages included
* [http://neurosynth.org/ Neurosynth] - an online platform to perform meta-analyses on neuroimaging studies
* [http://www.mozillascience.org/projects/neurostars Neurostars] - a Q&A site in the style of StackOverflow but for neuroinformatics
* [http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/ AFNI] - software for performing neuroimaging analyses maintained by the NIH
* [http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/ SPM] - software for doing statistical parametric mapping analysis
* [http://stnava.github.io/ANTs/ ANTs] - software to put individual fMRI scans in a common space that can be compared across subjects
* [http://freesurfer.net/ Freesurfer ] - software used to perform cortical surface analyses
* [http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/suma SUMA] - software for performing cortical surface analyses maintained by the AFNI team
* [http://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/ EEGLAB] - a Matlab toolbox for EEG analysis
* [http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/ Brainstorm ] - a Matlab toolbox for MEG/EEG analysis, specifically focusing on localizing brain activity
* [http://www.martinos.org/mne/stable/index.html MNE] - software for MEG/EEG analysis (developed in conjunction with Brainstorm)
* [http://nipy.sourceforge.net/nipype/ Nipype] - a common Python interface to a variety of neuroimaging packages
* [http://nipy.sourceforge.net/nibabel/ Nibabel] - a Python package to load in neuroimaging data files
* [http://fcp-indi.github.io/ C-PAC] - a Nipype-based package to configure resting state fMRI analyses
* [https://sites.google.com/site/eegnetworks/ EEGNet] - a MATLAB toolbox for analyzing network connectivity in M/EEG data.
* [https://github.com/BackyardBrains/Backyard-Brains-Android-App#readme Backyard Brains]
* [http://www.psychopy.org/ PsychoPy] - a set of tools for doing stimulus presentation and capturing behavioral data
* [http://visionegg.org/ Vision Egg] - another open source stimuli presentation package
* [http://pebl.sourceforge.net PEBL] - a suite of common tasks used in psychological research
* [https://pythonhosted.org/pyxnat/ PyXNAT] - allows Python to interface with a popular neuroimaging data management tool (XNAT)
* [https://github.com/openworm/PyOpenWorm PyOpenWorm] - Python interface to fetch C. elegans data.
* [https://sites.google.com/site/bctnet/ Brain Connectivity Toolbox (BCT)] - a MATLAB toolbox to perform network analyses on neuroimaging data
* [https://github.com/aestrivex/bctpy bctpy] - a Python port of BCT
* [https://github.com/francopestilli/life LiFE] - a package to evaluate quality of white matter connectomes

===Nuclear Engineering===

* [http://lammps.sandia.gov/ LAMMPS] - a molecular dynamics library that can be used to model parallel atomic/subatomic processes at large scale, lead by Sandia National Laboratories
* [http://code.google.com/p/open-geiger-development-kit/ OpenGeiger] - an open source, open hardware Geiger Counter

=Open Science Projects with an Educational or Instructional Focus=

==Cross-discipline==
* [http://software-carpentry.org/ Software Carpentry]
* [http://datacarpentry.org/ Data Carpentry]
* [http://www.software.ac.uk/ Software Sustainability Institute] - works on educating researchers about good practices in software development/community organizing
* [http://www.opensciencetraining.com/ Open Science Training Initiative]
* [http://coderscrowd.com CodersCrowd] - intended to teach code review skills

==Discipline-specific==


Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.
Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.


===Environmental Studies===
# Open Science Journalism and/or Information-sharing Projects
* [http://publiclab.org/ Public Lab]


=Open Science Journalism and/or Information-sharing Projects=
## Cross-discipline


==Cross-discipline==
## Discipline-specific

* [http://www.mozillascience.org Mozilla Science]
* [https://okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation]
* [https://www.openaccessbutton.org/ The Open Access Button] - searches for publicly available versions of paywalled articles
* [http://oag.cottagelabs.com/ Open Article Gauge] - determines the license of an academic article
* [http://arxiv.org/ ArXiv] - repository of open access articles (mostly pre-release in physics, math and computer science)
* [http://orcid.org/ ORCID] - a digital identifier for authors of scientific publications
* [http://www.docear.org/ Docear] - software to manage academic literature
* [https://peerlibrary.org/ PeerLibrary] - a search engine for academic literature and people; a way of organizing literature
* [https://impactstory.org/ ImpactStory] - altmetrics organization
* [https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jotgit Jotgit] - collaborative writing software
* [http://www.openscienceradio.de Open Science Radio] - podcast (mainly in german language) about the open science movement
* [https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science-de open-science-de] - Mailinglist in german language about open science in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.
* [https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ Open Journal Systems] - a software project used to facilitate the creation of online journals, as well as peer review
* [http://ocsdnet.org OCSD] - an organization examining open science practices in the Global South

==Discipline-specific==


Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.
Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.


===Agriculture===
# Citizen Science, Participatory Research, Crowdsourced Research,
* [https://cgspace.cgiar.org/ CGSpace] - open access materials related to agriculture in Africa
===Neurosciences===
* [http://www.openeuroscience.com/ Open Neuroscience] - Information about open source projects for neurosciences
* [http://neuralensemble.org/ NeuralEnsemble] - a website to coordinate open source neuroscience software development


=Citizen Science, Participatory Research, Crowdsourced Research=
## Cross-discipline


==Cross-discipline==
## Discipline-specific

* [https://www.zooniverse.org/ Zooniverse]
* [http://scistarter.com/ SciStarter]
* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit CitizenScience.org] - database of projects from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* [http://pybossa.com/ PyBossa] - framework to create a new crowdsourced project
* [http://crowdcrafting.org/ Crowdcrafting] - a crowdsourcing website that uses Pybossa for its projects
* [http://www.citizencyberscience.net/ Citizen Cyberscience Centre]
* [https://www.openhumans.org/ Open Humans] - an organization devoted to facilitating voluntary data sharing

==Discipline-specific==


Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.
Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.


===Astronomy===
# Open Scientific Data Sources & Resources


* [http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home] - use unused CPU cycles to look for extraterrestrial life
## Cross-discipline


===Chemistry===
## Discipline-specific
* [http://www.smokymtsci.com SmokyMountainScientific] - tools for electrochemistry, solution handling

===Genomics===

* [http://www.personalgenomes.org/ Personal Genome Project] - an effort to create a genomics dataset with willing data contributions from volunteers

===Ornithology===

* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=1671 Cornell Lab of Ornithology Citizen Science Projects]

===Oceanography===

* [http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?cat=2743 OpenCTD] - a project to develop an open source Connectivity-Temperature-Depth sensor

===Particle Physics===

* [http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/ LHC@home] - use unused CPU cycles to contribute to particle physics
* [https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics Flavours of Physics: machine-learning contest] - 2015-07-20 to 2015-10-12

=Open Scientific Data Sources & Resources=

==Cross-discipline==
* [http://dataverse.org/ Dataverse]
* [https://osf.io/ Open Science Framework]
* [https://scitran.github.io/ SciTran] - a scientific data management system geared toward facilitating reproducible research; originated in neuroscience community but meant to be generalizable to other fields
* [https://github.com/pyrdm/pyrdm PyRDM] - Python-based research data manager
* [http://datadryad.org/ Dryad]
* [http://academictorrents.com/ AcademicTorrents] - data distributed via BitTorrent
* [https://irods.org/ iRODS] - data management
* [https://github.com/ropensci rOpenSci] - an organization that makes R packages to import datasets into R
* [http://dat-data.com/ Dat] - version control for datasets
* [http://www.datalad.org/ DataLad] - Git-based version control for datasets
* [http://www.scidb.org/ SciDB] - database designed specifically for science data; includes data versioning capabilities
* [https://github.com/jbenet/datadex Datadex] - an implementation of a centralized repository for datasets versioned with Data/Dat
* [http://wisdmhub.org/dev2/apps/wisdmhome/ WISDM] - the web interactive scientific data manager
* [http://www.svenkreiss.com/blog/databench-initial/ Databench] - Javascript-based data analysis tool
* [http://www.standardanalytics.io/ StandardAnalytics] - web interface for annotating articles and publishing research data
* [http://contentmine.org/ ContentMine] - tool for extraction of facts from scientific literature using machine-based content scraping

==Discipline-specific==


Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.
Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

===Astronomy===
* [http://www.sdss.org/ Sloan Digital Sky Survey]

===Biology===
* [http://www.biomoby.org/ Biomoby]

===Biomedical Research===
* [http://harvest.research.chop.edu/ Harvest]
* [https://www.synapse.org/ Synapse]

===Ecology===
* [http://www.ecodataretriever.org/ EcoData Retriever]

===Neuroscience===
* [https://openfmri.org/ OpenfMRI]
* [http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/index.html FCP-INDI]
* [http://www.oasis-brains.org/ OASIS]
* [https://ndar.nih.gov/ NDAR]
* [http://brainomics.cea.fr/localizer Brainomics] - functional localizer data
* [http://datasets.codeneuro.org/ CodeNeuro Datasets]
* [http://www.brain-map.org/ Allen Institute Datasets]
* [http://neuroelectro.org/ Neuroelectro]
* [http://studyforrest.org Study Forrest]
* [http://www.humanconnectome.org/data/ Human Connectome Project]

===Oceanography===
* [http://oceanobservatories.org/ Ocean Observatories Initiative]

===Particle Physics===
* [http://opendata.cern.ch/ CERN Open Data Portal]

Latest revision as of 18:26, 30 November 2018

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Open Science Conferences, Meetups, and other Community Events

Cross-discipline

Discipline-specific

Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

Astronomy

Neuroscience

Ecology

Open Source Scientific Software Projects

Cross-discipline

Discipline-specific

Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

Aeronautics and astronautics

  • SunPy, a solar physics library actively maintained by NASA GSFC.
  • MakerPlane, a project for building personal planes (article)

Atmospheric sciences

  • CMAQ - EPA's development project: a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations
  • GEMPAK - soon to be replaced with AWIPS II - a weather forecasting, display and analysis package, lead developer: National Weather Service
  • OpenMadrigal - a database for accessing/archiving geospace data (does geospace == atmospheric science?)

Astronomy

Biochemistry

  • BioPython - a set of tools for biological computation written in Python
  • BioPerl
  • OpenBabel - allows anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas

Biology

  • Synbiota - synthetic biology development platform
  • Galaxy - workflow manager for bioinformatics
  • OMERO - a software suite for managing microscopy data

Biomedical Engineering

  • BioSig - an open source software library for biomedical signal processing of biosignals such as EEG, ECoG, ECG, EOG and EMG
  • OpenSim - tool for modeling and simulation of movement
  • Orthanc - an open source DICOM server

Geography

  • Roadright - a tool for modeling road maintenance

Geosciences

Linguistics

Materials Science

  • ESPRESSO - a software package for performing and analyzing simulations of “coarse-grained” models as used in soft-matter research

Mathematics

  • Sage Math - a popular software system combining many projects into a common Python-based interface
  • GAP - a system for computational discrete algebra
  • CoCoA - a system for computations in commutative algebra
  • emgr - empirical gramian framework for model reduction and system identification

Neuroscience

  • NeuroDebian - a turnkey Linux distribution with major open source neuroimaging packages included
  • Neurosynth - an online platform to perform meta-analyses on neuroimaging studies
  • Neurostars - a Q&A site in the style of StackOverflow but for neuroinformatics
  • AFNI - software for performing neuroimaging analyses maintained by the NIH
  • SPM - software for doing statistical parametric mapping analysis
  • ANTs - software to put individual fMRI scans in a common space that can be compared across subjects
  • Freesurfer - software used to perform cortical surface analyses
  • SUMA - software for performing cortical surface analyses maintained by the AFNI team
  • EEGLAB - a Matlab toolbox for EEG analysis
  • Brainstorm - a Matlab toolbox for MEG/EEG analysis, specifically focusing on localizing brain activity
  • MNE - software for MEG/EEG analysis (developed in conjunction with Brainstorm)
  • Nipype - a common Python interface to a variety of neuroimaging packages
  • Nibabel - a Python package to load in neuroimaging data files
  • C-PAC - a Nipype-based package to configure resting state fMRI analyses
  • EEGNet - a MATLAB toolbox for analyzing network connectivity in M/EEG data.
  • Backyard Brains
  • PsychoPy - a set of tools for doing stimulus presentation and capturing behavioral data
  • Vision Egg - another open source stimuli presentation package
  • PEBL - a suite of common tasks used in psychological research
  • PyXNAT - allows Python to interface with a popular neuroimaging data management tool (XNAT)
  • PyOpenWorm - Python interface to fetch C. elegans data.
  • Brain Connectivity Toolbox (BCT) - a MATLAB toolbox to perform network analyses on neuroimaging data
  • bctpy - a Python port of BCT
  • LiFE - a package to evaluate quality of white matter connectomes

Nuclear Engineering

  • LAMMPS - a molecular dynamics library that can be used to model parallel atomic/subatomic processes at large scale, lead by Sandia National Laboratories
  • OpenGeiger - an open source, open hardware Geiger Counter

Open Science Projects with an Educational or Instructional Focus

Cross-discipline

Discipline-specific

Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

Environmental Studies

Open Science Journalism and/or Information-sharing Projects

Cross-discipline

  • Mozilla Science
  • Open Knowledge Foundation
  • The Open Access Button - searches for publicly available versions of paywalled articles
  • Open Article Gauge - determines the license of an academic article
  • ArXiv - repository of open access articles (mostly pre-release in physics, math and computer science)
  • ORCID - a digital identifier for authors of scientific publications
  • Docear - software to manage academic literature
  • PeerLibrary - a search engine for academic literature and people; a way of organizing literature
  • ImpactStory - altmetrics organization
  • Jotgit - collaborative writing software
  • Open Science Radio - podcast (mainly in german language) about the open science movement
  • open-science-de - Mailinglist in german language about open science in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.
  • Open Journal Systems - a software project used to facilitate the creation of online journals, as well as peer review
  • OCSD - an organization examining open science practices in the Global South

Discipline-specific

Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

Agriculture

  • CGSpace - open access materials related to agriculture in Africa

Neurosciences

  • Open Neuroscience - Information about open source projects for neurosciences
  • NeuralEnsemble - a website to coordinate open source neuroscience software development

Citizen Science, Participatory Research, Crowdsourced Research

Cross-discipline

Discipline-specific

Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

Astronomy

  • SETI@home - use unused CPU cycles to look for extraterrestrial life

Chemistry

Genomics

Ornithology

Oceanography

  • OpenCTD - a project to develop an open source Connectivity-Temperature-Depth sensor

Particle Physics

Open Scientific Data Sources & Resources

Cross-discipline

  • Dataverse
  • Open Science Framework
  • SciTran - a scientific data management system geared toward facilitating reproducible research; originated in neuroscience community but meant to be generalizable to other fields
  • PyRDM - Python-based research data manager
  • Dryad
  • AcademicTorrents - data distributed via BitTorrent
  • iRODS - data management
  • rOpenSci - an organization that makes R packages to import datasets into R
  • Dat - version control for datasets
  • DataLad - Git-based version control for datasets
  • SciDB - database designed specifically for science data; includes data versioning capabilities
  • Datadex - an implementation of a centralized repository for datasets versioned with Data/Dat
  • WISDM - the web interactive scientific data manager
  • Databench - Javascript-based data analysis tool
  • StandardAnalytics - web interface for annotating articles and publishing research data
  • ContentMine - tool for extraction of facts from scientific literature using machine-based content scraping

Discipline-specific

Please make sub-headings for your discipline as needed.

Astronomy

Biology

Biomedical Research

Ecology

Neuroscience

Oceanography

Particle Physics