title: Improving functional magnetic resonance imaging reproducibility.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The ability to replicate an entire experiment is crucial to the scientific method. With the development of more and more complex paradigms, and the variety of analysis techniques available, fMRI studies are becoming harder to reproduce.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this article, we aim to provide practical advice to fMRI researchers not versed in computing, in order to make studies more reproducible. All of these steps require researchers to move towards a more open science, in which all aspects of the experimental method are documented and shared.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Only by sharing experiments, data, metadata, derived data and analysis workflows will neuroimaging establish itself as a true data science.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Neuroimaging Sciences, University of Edinburgh Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB UK.
authors.forename: Cyril
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pernet
authors.affiliation: Henry H Wheeler, Jr Brain Imaging Center, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 USA.
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Poline
mesh_terms: D033181:Information Dissemination; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057188:Workflow
keywords: Code; Functional MRI; Open science; Reproducibility; Scripts; Workflows
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