Should peer review stop being anonymous? Inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer’s "On authorship and style", I now sign my reviews. I would like to share here some excerpts on anonymity in literary journals from this memorable essay.…
We do not need powerful desktop computers in our lab, just single connection points in the cloud. Learn how to build a silent, energy-efficient, and dual display workspace.…
Zenodo is a general-purpose open-access repository that assign a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) to any research digital material. We show how to create a release of a repository stored in GitHub and upload it into Zenodo.…
Neo4j is a graph database that uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store data. We will briefly describe the open source packages, written in Python and R, that we use in our lab to connect Neo4j databases from our JupyterLab server.…
The LaTex extension for JupyterLab allows for live-editing of LaTeX documents.…
The JupyterLab GitLab extension allows lab members to select GitLab organizations and users, browse their repositories, and open the files in those repositories. If those files are notebooks, we can run them just as you would any other notebook.…
The JupyterLab GitHub extension allows lab members to select GitHub organizations and users, browse their repositories, and open the files in those repositories. If those files are notebooks, we can run them just as you would any other notebook.…
Git, as a version control system, allows lab members to revert and go back to an older version of the code. Moreover, sometimes multiple members are working in parallel on the same code, so Git is needed to ensure there are no code conflicts between them.…