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NeuroCurator

Desktop application to perform systematic and collaborative curation of neuroscientific literature.

This is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the Python package NeuroAnnotation Toolbox (NAT).

This framework has been described in details in the following open-access paper: https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2017.00027.

With NeuroCurator, annotations are:

• traceable,
• reusable across projects,
• structured with controlled vocabularies.

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Getting Started

Requirements:

System side:

• Git 1.7.0+
• ImageMagick 6
• Python 3.4*
• Qt 4.8.7*
• Miniconda*

Python side:

• NAT
• PySide 1.2.4
• NumPy
• pandas
• Wand

*Miniconda is not required. It simplifies only temporary the installation: no need to compile Qt and to install manually Python 3.4.

Installation:

Create a virtual environment with Python 3.4:

conda create -y --name nc python=3.4

Switch to the virtual environment:

source activate nc

Install PySide 1.2.4 and Qt 4.8.7 from conda-forge:

conda install -y pyside --channel conda-forge

Install NeuroCurator:

pip install nat
pip install neurocurator --no-deps

Launch NeuroCurator:

neurocurator

For the future uses:

1. enter the virtual environment: source activate nc
2. launch NeuroCurator: neurocurator
3. use NeuroCurator
4. close NeuroCurator
5. exit the virtual environment: source deactivate

Releases

Versions and their notable changes are listed in the releases section.

Status

Created during 2016.

Ongoing stabilization and reengineering in the branch refactor-architecture.

The branch refactor-architecture is not intended to be used by end-users.

New features, bug fixes and improvements are done on the reengineered code sections.

When a reengineered code section is stable, it's merged into the branch master and a release is published.