Banayan .. github ..
Hurray - VINES is finally open sourced!
"GitHub of Science"
Aw.
Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
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Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#72This is great. Too often we only get the original researchers' interpretation of the data and not much else. Good luck with it!
Thanks csmatt, I completely agree!
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#73Would love to try this but you'd have to let me have at least 1 private project. I don't have permission to share private research data with the world. Also, I tried to submit my email to be notified for the mac app and was told it was invalid (it was just a standard @gmail address).
Hi Osmium, thats a good point. We will revisit the pricing model tonight.
The forms are broken unfortunately. I have submitted a fix, but we wont be deploying until later tonight when the HN craziness slows down. In the interim, you can drop me your email at toni (at) banyan.co and I will manually add it to the list
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#74How does your product compare with http://www.openscienceframework.org/ ? As a scientist, I'm inclined to trust OSF more, since it's run by other scientists, fully open source, and doesn't need to make a profit. At the moment, OSF seems more focused on tools to facilitate collaboration and less focused on replicating functionality currently available on GitHub, although it sounds like they use git as a backend and ev…
Hi Simonster, Thats a great question & a valid concern considering the acquisitions of tools like Mendeley [1]. We are equally focused on tools for collaboration & reproducibility, but our efforts the past few months have been focused on building an MVP.
With Banyan, your data will always be open & you're free to take it with you anywhere. If you want to move your repos to github/bitbucket/another service, you're easily able to do so
[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-boug...
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#75its kind of tragic that I read that whole post, spent another 5 minutes researching, trying to find some kind of more information, but I still have no idea what this tool actually does.
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#76I tried to leave my email regarding the Windows port and it said my email address was invalid.
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#77Great to see another product in this space ( https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.
Your old-fashioned P.I. has written his fair share of papers in LaTeX thank you very much! :)
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#78its kind of tragic that I read that whole post, spent another 5 minutes researching, trying to find some kind of more information, but I still have no idea what this tool actually does .
Didnt you get the memo? Its like twitter for facebookers using science with github
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#79Are you planning on releasing a Linux client?
When you say science, git, and LaTeX, Linux is often the next word in the sequence...
Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
#80How does your product compare with http://www.openscienceframework.org/ ? As a scientist, I'm inclined to trust OSF more, since it's run by other scientists, fully open source, and doesn't need to make a profit. At the moment, OSF seems more focused on tools to facilitate collaboration and less focused on replicating functionality currently available on GitHub, although it sounds like they use git as a backend and ev…
I'm a recovering PhD. OSF looks pretty cool.
By the way OSF costs money if it is done by scientists. Those scientists get paid by someone. They spent shit ton of money (in form of salaries + time) building it + publishing it. Science works on government grants, i.e. taxpayer money. It is actually a fairly profitable industry, and NIH grants are the biggest contributor to capital expenditure of US Research Universities. The 55% overhead coming out of each grant is basically the "profit margin". Calling something by a different name doesn't make it so. Your github profile says you're at MIT, around Cambridge. So am I. What do you think pays for all the shiny buildings around Kendall? It's not just philanthropy.