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Gear Exchange

Introduction

Flywheel has curated a collection of Gears, or ready-to-use plug-in applications, that automate routine tasks, including metadata extraction, classification, quality assurance, BIDS conversion, and full analytic pipelines. These can be found on the Flywheel Gear Exchange. This resource is made available through the contributions of Flywheel employees, customers and members of the broader research community.

What are the Benefits of the Exchange?

  • Gears within the exchange can be installed to any Flywheel Instance
  • The Gear Exchange is Flywheel's principles in practice
    • Openness
    • Transparency
    • Reproducibility
  • Most of the gears in the exchange are open source and can be used as a starting point for developing custom gears

Contributing to the Flywheel Gear Exchange

What is the Flywheel Gear Exchange?

  • The Flywheel Gear Exchange is a place where Gear authors can publish Gears they are willing to share with the broader Flywheel community.
  • It is a library of ready-to-use pre-processing and analysis pipeline applications
  • It is hosted within a GitHub Repository containing Manifests with CI enabled to automatically build and host Gear assets.

How do I contribute?

If you would like to contribute a Gear you have developed to the Flywheel Gear Exchange, please visit the Gear Exchange Gitlab repo and have a look at the README for instructions.

How do I start developing gears?

You can refer to the Gear Building Tutorial for a step-by-step guide to creating your first gear. Once you get more familiar with the Flywheel gear development workflow, you can start exploring the Gear Exchange Gitlab repo to see how other gears are structured and how they are contributed to the exchange.

How to engage with the Flywheel community?