Biomedical computational reproducible research using Madagascar

Abstract

Madagascar is an open-source collaborative software project for multidimensional data analysis and reproducible computational experiments. The purpose of this work is to show how Madagascar can be used to provide a platform to process biomedical data, like diagnostic medical images, among others, in a reproducible research fashion. Although Madagascar has been used mainly to deal with geoscientific data it can also be used as a powerful and complete framework to create biomedical scientific literature with attached data and computer recipes that simplify the verification and repetition of computational experiments by peer reviewers, fellow colleagues and even by the original authors and their succesors.