reproducible research in the neurosciences

[Robert W. Cox]

Richard Vickery (Richard.Vickery at unsw.edu.au) wrote:
: Although this is a good idea in principle, I think that in practice it will be 
: very difficult. [....]

In functional MRI, a typical data set from a 2 hour imaging experiment is
about 500 MB (double if you take the raw data instead of the reconstructed
images).  A typical paper from our groups will have 20-40 such experiments.
To post the data online would thus require setting aside at least 10 GB of
disk space.  While I think this is a good idea, it is not practical for now.
We are always fighting lack of disk space -- and we have 6 9 GB Seagate
drives on our analysis workstations.

Robert W. Cox, PhD
Biophysics Research Institute / Medical College of Wisconsin
http://www.biophysics.mcw.edu/BRI-people/cox.html