Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: expfactory
Version: 3.11
Summary: software to generate a reproducible container battery of experiments.
Home-page: http://www.github.com/expfactory/expfactory
Author: Vanessa Sochat
Author-email: vsochat@stanford.edu
License: LICENSE
Description-Content-Type: UNKNOWN
Description: # The Experiment Factory
        
        [![DOI](http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00521/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00521)
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        ![expfactory/static/img/expfactoryticketyellow.png](expfactory/static/img/expfactoryticketyellow.png)
        
        See our [documentation](https://expfactory.github.io/expfactory) for getting started. If you are new to containers, read our [background](https://expfactory.github.io/expfactory/generate#background) or [paper](paper) first. If you want a more guided entry, see the [detailed start](https://expfactory.github.io/expfactory/generate#detailed-start)
        
        The Experiment Factory is software to create a reproducible container that you can easily customize to deploy a set of web-based experiments. 
        
        ## Citation
        If the Experiment Factory is useful to you, please cite [the paper](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00521) to support the software and open source development.
        
        ```
        Sochat, (2018). The Experiment Factory: Reproducible Experiment Containers. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(22), 521, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00521
        ```
        
        ## Contributing
        We have many ways to contribute, and will nriefly provide resources here to get you started.
        
        ### How to Contribute
        If you are a developer interested in working on the Experiment Factory software you should read out [contributing guidelines](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details. For contributing containers and experiments, see our [user documentation](https://expfactory.github.io/expfactory/contribute). If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to [ask a question](https://www.github.com/expfactory/expfactory/issues).
        
        ### Code of Conduct
        It's important to treat one another with respect and maintain a fun and respectful environment for the open source community. Toward this aim, we ask that you review our [code of conduct](.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
        
        ## Background
        It's predecessor at [Expfactory.org](https://expfactory.org) was never able to open up to the public, and this went against the original goal of the software. Further, the badly needed functionality to serve a local battery was poorly met with [expfactory-python](https://www.github.com/expfactory/expfactory-python) as time progressed and dependencies changes.
         
        This version is agnostic to the underlying driver of the experiments, and provides reproducible, instantly deployable "container" experiments. What does that mean?
        
         - You obtain (or build) one container, a battery of experiments.
         - You (optionally) customize it
           - custom variables (e.g., a study identifier) and configurations go into the build recipe 
           - you can choose to use your own database (default output is flat files)
           - other options are available at runtime 
         - The container can be easily shared.
         - You run the container, optionally specifying a subset and ordering, and collect your results
         
        If you build on [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/) anyone else can then pull and use your exact container to collect their own results. It is exact down to the file hash.
        
        ## Experiment Library
        The experiments themselves are now maintained under [expfactory-experiments](https://www.github.com/expfactory-experiments), official submissions to be found by expfactory can be added to the [library](https://www.github.com/expfactory/library) (under development) to be tested that they meet minimum requirements.
        
Keywords: docker container reproducible behavior neuroscience experiment factory
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Classifier: Operating System :: Unix
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
