Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by twog » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 3:36 PM UTC

Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta
blog.banyan.co

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by twog » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

Hi HN!

We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start.

We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API.

I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to answer any questions you might have.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by killahpriest » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

twog wrote: post #2

Hi HN! We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start. We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API. I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to an…

Congrats! Unfortunately, your server isn't handling the load and the google cache is a SASS error. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:knsEMz3...

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Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by tel » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

twog wrote: post #2

Hi HN! We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start. We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API. I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to an…

Hi twog,

The blog appears to be down, but as an individual very interested in open science could you explain a bit more about the use-case Banyan targets? I imagine this is very focused on things like analysis or computational biology where the primary iterative factor is measured in lines of code changed.

Do you see this tool being used by adjacent sciences? Life sciences, human subject research, materials?

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by amirmansour » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 3:57 PM UTC

twog wrote: post #2

Hi HN! We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start. We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API. I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to an…

This looks like a great and useful service. I'm going to give it a try. However, I tried signing up for "Banyan for Mac," but whatever email I provided was said to be invalid!

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by jmmcd » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

I don't get it. I can't see any information on the homepage that makes it different from just using github.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by twog » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

killahpriest wrote: post #3

twog wrote: post #2

Hi HN! We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start. We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API. I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to an…

Congrats! Unfortunately, your server isn't handling the load and the google cache is a SASS error. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:knsEMz3... Got something more descriptive you can link to?

Sorry, we cross posted to reddit & HN and the response has been outstanding. Working on getting this fixed right now.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by pmtarantino » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

I don't know if you were inspired by a submission [1] I did almost six months ago, but if not, kudos anyway :) When the site is up again I will check it!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712787

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by twog » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

jmmcd wrote: post #6

I don't get it. I can't see any information on the homepage that makes it different from just using github.

Our main two differences from github is that we built banyan to be version control for "humans". Our mac application for example is extremely simple to use, and was designed with an 18 year old undergraduate/55 year old lab veteran in mind. Banyan was designed to be the middle ground of collaboration for users who know git with people who have no idea what git is (and in most cases, cant be bothered to learn another tool).

Our second difference is our focus on scientific specific tools like latex, ipython, etc.

Re: Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

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Post by twog » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

pmtarantino wrote: post #8

I don't know if you were inspired by a submission [1] I did almost six months ago, but if not, kudos anyway :) When the site is up again I will check it! [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712787

It wasnt! But we should talk. We are looking for engineers who want to change the way science works. We announced Banyan publicly last August [1] during the http://thegigtank.com

[1] http://us-ignite.org/2012/08/gig-tank-demo-day-delivers/