Make qMRLab an official BIDS App

[jcohenadad]

Why would we do that? to gain visibility

More info on BIDS App --> https://bids-apps.neuroimaging.io/

[mathieuboudreau]

I think our biggest hurdle is that we can't dockerize MATLAB software, can we? Or at least, there's something finicky about asking the users to manually find the license file and give permission to the Docker container to use it.

This might be more feasible for pyqmrlab, if I or one of Nikola's future students continue developing it.

Unless we make the BIDS app fully Octave, but then the processing time may not be up to par with what users expect.

[agahkarakuzu]

We can, and we actually are doing it automatically at each release:

The app is compiled with GUI as entrypoint, compiled app is pushed to Standalone/Ubuntu folder on osf with the release tag, and docker images are built & pushed to DockerHub.

The only missing link to achieve this for BIDS was having a CLI interface, which now we do with the latest major changes made in release v2.5.0b. We will have another release pipeline that uses main BIDS interface as the entrypoint.

qMRLab may be the only MATLAB software out there with a continuous deployment pipeline :)

[mathieuboudreau]

Ah right, I forgot about the compiled versions you released! Thanks for clarifying Agah!