[PRE REVIEW]: Neurosift: DANDI exploration and NWB visualization in the browser

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@magland<!--end-author-handle-- (Jeremy Magland) Repository: https://github.com/flatironinstitute/neurosift Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): paper Version: 0.2.5 Editor: !--editor-->@mstimberg<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @alexrockhill, @jodeleeuw, @sanjayankur31 Managing EiC: Kevin M. Moerman

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- No DOI given, and none found for title: The neurodata without borders ecosystem for neurop...
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- No DOI given, and none found for title: nwbwidgets: Explore the hierarchical structure of ...
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@editorialbot set main as branch

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Done! branch is now main

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Software report:

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.90  T=0.11 s (2446.2 files/s, 225498.2 lines/s)
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Language                      files          blank        comment           code
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TypeScript                      243           2316           1877          19687
Markdown                          7            144              0            275
CSS                               8             52              7            271
Python                            4             43             16            182
JSON                              5              0              0            157
HTML                              1              2              0             59
JavaScript                        1              7              8             58
Jupyter Notebook                  1              0             98             49
YAML                              2              1              0             34
Bourne Shell                      2             14             11             27
Bourne Again Shell                1             12             10             25
SVG                               1              0              0              1
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SUM:                            276           2591           2027          20825
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Commit count by author:

   245  Jeremy Magland
     7  Ben Dichter

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License info:

✅ License found: Apache License 2.0 (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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@editorialbot set paper as branch

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Done! branch is now paper

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@magland thanks for this submission to JOSS. I am the AEiC on this track. From the above software report it looks like the core functionality of this submission is captured by the TypeScript code. For some submissions we've seen that a significant portion of such TypeScript or JavaScript code has been automatically generated, e.g. by a tool facilitating GUI/web interface creation. Can you please clarify what portion e.g. of the 19687 lines of code is your original and personal contribution, and what portion is perhaps auto-generated or taken from existing libraries? Thanks.

[magland]

Hi @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman! The vast majority of the code was written by myself or my co-developer Jeff Soules without the assistance of AI. In the past 4 months or so I have been using GitHub Copilot, but this is only for code completion (not writing large sections). In terms of percentages, I would say 90% was written by me and Jeff before copilot assistance and around 10%, more recently, with copilot as an assistant. Essentially no code has been taken from other libraries except for some that was ported over from a related project of mine called sortingview.

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magland if you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @). You can search the list of people that have already agreed to review and may be suitable for this submission.

After a searching the reviewers list I came upon the following names as potential reviewers.

• Josh de Leeuw
• Jonny Saunders
• alexrockhill

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@magland thanks for providing the additional clarifying information.

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I'd be happy to edit this submission !

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:wave: @magland Thank you for submitting to JOSS ! I will facilitate the review process as the editor, don't hesitate to ping me (@mstimberg) in case of any questions. The first step will be to find reviewers, if you have any suggestions, please mention them here (without tagging them with an @). Thanks!

[magland]

Hi @mstimberg, it's nice to meet you. I searched through the online list and came up with these three names as possible reviewers.

• Josh de Leeuw
• Jonny Saunders
• alexrockhill

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Hi @magland. Thank you for your suggestions. I have contacted several potential reviewers over mail, and I am waiting for their reply. Please note that I will be out-of-office until April 7th, so I might be slow to reply during that time. Most likely, the review process will not start before I am back. Many thanks for your patience!

[magland]

@mstimberg sounds good. Thanks for letting me know.

[mstimberg]

@editorialbot add @alexrockhill as reviewer

Thanks again for helping out (and the fast reply :blush:)

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@alexrockhill added to the reviewers list!

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@editorialbot add @jodeleeuw as reviewer

Many thanks again for helping out!

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@jodeleeuw added to the reviewers list!

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@editorialbot add @sanjayankur31 as reviewer

Great having you on board!

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@sanjayankur31 added to the reviewers list!

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