Nipype 2.0: building new ecosystem around Pydra

[djarecka]

Project info

Title:
Nipype 2.0: building new ecosystem around Pydra

Project lead:
Dorota Jarecka, @djarecka
Christopher Markiewicz: @effigies
Hao-Ting Wang: @htwangtw
Jeffrey Wigger: @JW-96
Satra Ghosh @satra

Timezone:

afternoon/evening Europe & morning/afternoon East Coast
we will start around noon UTC and finish around 7/8 PM UTC

Description:
We are creating Nipype 2.0 ecosystem around Pydra package.
Pydra is a new dataflow engine, coordinating the movement of data from the output of one computational node to the input of another node. A workflow is represented as a graph, and each node is a Task object, which may be a Python function or an interface to an external tool.

During this hackathon we want to work on the core package, but also prepare converters for Nipype 1.0 interfaces. We are also planning to improve documentation and tutorials.

Pyrda is a lightweight, Py3.7+ dataflow engine for computational graph construction, manipulation, and distributed execution.

Link to project:
any repo from the nipype organization: https://github.com/nipype

Mattermost handle:
dorota, markiewicz, haoting, jeffrey

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack

• working on pydra - dataflow engine
• converting Nipype interfaces
• adding better support for boutiques
• improving documentation and tutorial
  full list could be found (and edited) here:
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuMD-hagnUQPZvud8k1jXdAPE55RpWGMYXcVBcsw6S8/edit?usp=sharing

Good first issues:

• exploring tutorial: https://github.com/nipype/pydra-tutorial
• improving documentation: https://github.com/nipype/pydra/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

Skills:

• some python
• nipype experience (optional)
• experience with any software supported by nipype (FSL, ANTs, SPM, etc.; optional)
• distributed execution (optional)

Chat channel:

• nipype

https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/nipype

Video channel:

we will be using either the main platform or jitsi. Please check the mattermost

Image for the OHBM brainhack website

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[djarecka]

hi @ohbm/project-monitors: My project is ready!