Open-Source Science Makes Headway

What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful? What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful?

Software is the backbone of scientific computing. Yet, while we regularly publish detailed accounts about the results of scientific software, and while there is a general sense of which numerical methods work well, our community is largely unaware of best practices in writing the large-scale, open source scientific software upon which our discipline rests. This is particularly apparent in the c...

Head Development: Craniofacial genetics makes headway

Studies of neural crest migration in animal models, and of human syndromes in which craniofacial development is abnormal, are helping us to understand both prenatal and postnatal development of the head.

Open Source Science

What Makes Computational Open Source Software Libraries Successful?

Software is the backbone of scientific computing. Yet, while we regularly publish detailed accounts about the results of scientific software, and while there is a general sense of which numerical methods work well, our community is largely unaware of best practices in writing the largescale, open source scientific software upon which our discipline rests. This is particularly apparent in the co...

Rightinsight: open source architecture for data science

We give the details of our reference architecture called RightInsight for enabling rapid data science. RightInsight is based purely on open source technologies. The data is stored in a standard distributed file system such as HDFS. The stored data is processed in Apache Spark, which provides an enhanced Map/Reduce programming environment. Its rich and powerful machine learning base makes it eas...