Nipype/Porcupine annotation and categorisation

[Remi-Gau]

Project leader

Name: Tim Van Mourik
Github username: @TimVanMourik

Project Description

I've written a visual programming interface to Nipype, Porcupine. It is in part meant to make MRI analysis a lot easier for the novice user, but there is one big problem: Nipype nodes (or a)
At the moment, all Nipype nodes are available, but they have the same untransparent names (e.g., fsl.BET) of the original function. It would be great if instead, the nodes could be organised by functionality instead.

• Primary goals:
  1. Find a way to collect relevant metadata from Nipype nodes. [Relevant to Nipype]
  2. List the nodes in an 'order by category' panel in Porcupine. [Relevant to Porcupine]
• Secondary goals:
  1. An annotation of this kind would be equally useful for the Nipype documentation. Some 'browse by category' functionality would be a welcome addition to the docs.
• Stretch goals (or separate project):
  1. Include snippets of text for some functions in order to automatically generate methods sections

Type

pipeline_development

Development status

2_releases_existing

Topic

other

Tools

Nipype

Programming language

Python

Modalities

not_applicable

Git skills

2_branches_PRs