NeuroGentoo Presentation - Bringing the Power of Gentoo Package Management to (Neuro)Scientific Software Environments

Neuroscience, one of the most computation-reliant fields in the natural sciences, is dependent upon dozens of highly complex software suites, which scientists are often forced to manage manually. Upstream developers often ship bundled dependencies to better support this flawed workflow, and in the resulting mess documenting and reproducing analysis pipelines is neigh-impossible. We seek to correct these shortcoming of both modern software distribution as well as modern data science, by integrating high-quality ebuilds for neuroscientific software into the Gentoo Science Overlay. We also seek to publish a simple NuroGentoo world file (along with appropriate usage instructions) to allow scientists with access to OpenStack, Amazon Elastic Computing, or Docker to launch up and build a system fit for reproducing data analysis run on other NeuroGentoo systems with minimum effort.