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My occupation is a research coordinator. I am essentially a project manager in the clinical research realm. My expertise focuses on instrumentation for osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM). Before I start talking about my career and Linux, I need to describe osteopathy. Osteopathy is the sublime art of treating physical somatic symptoms using various techniques of counterstrain, strain, and therapeutic palpatory treatment. This treatment is called OMM. Osteopathy is a fairly young medical science developed by A.T. Still in the United States. He believed the human body can heal itself if the musculoskeletal framework is balanced. In the United States, osteopathic doctors are considered equal to medical doctors . Today, some osteopathic doctors employ OMM to treat their patients. However, worldwide the standards for osteopathic practitioners are varied. In some countries, they are family doctors or they are equivalent to physical therapists. I work with primary investigators in developing new teaching methods or research questions using OMM. To quantify the scientific capabilities of OMM, I use instrumentation to answer various research questions.
Employé comme coordinateur de recherches, je suis essentiellement un gestionnaire de projets dans le domaine de la recherche clinique. Mon expertise se concentre surtout sur l'appareillage pour les traitements manipulatifs ostéopathiques (OMM). Avant de vous parler de ma carrière et Linux, je dois décrire l'ostéopathie.
L'ostéopathie est l'art sublime du traitement des symptômes somatiques physiques avec diverses techniques de strain-counterstrain et le traitement thérapeutique par palpation, appelé OMM. L'ostéopathie est une science médicale assez jeune développée aux États-Unis par A.T. Still. Il croyait que le corps humain peut se guérir seul si l'appareil locomoteur est en équilibre. Aux États-Unis, les médecins ostéopathes sont considérés les équivalents des docteurs en médecine. Aujourd'hui, certains médecins ostéopathes utilisent l'OMM pour traiter leurs malades, mais les normes pour les ostéopathes varient selon les pays. Parfois, ce sont des médecins de famille ou l'équivalent des kinésithérapeutes. Je travaille avec des chercheurs primaires pour développer de nouvelles méthodes d'enseignement ou questions de rechercher en utilisant l'OMM. Afin de quantifier les capacités scientifiques de l'OMM, je me sers d'instrumentation pour répondre à divers questions de recherche.
Instrumentation is simply the term used to describe cutting-edge technology to collect data. At my university, I use motion capture systems and pressure pads to objectively collect and quantify data. After collecting the data, I then process it and hand it off to a bio-statistician for statistical analysis. I use Linux on a daily basis for my various research studies.
There are a number of Linux variants directed towards research. Ubuntu has a variant called Ubuntu Sci. I started using Scientific Linux. It was originally based off Fedora or Redhat Enterprise Linux. Today, it is based off CentOS. CentOS is a great LTS distro, however the software packages are older and stable. I prefer having newer software in my daily distro.
I use a Fedora Remix that is called the Korora Project. There are a number of reasons I use Korora. It is downstream from Fedora, so updates are implemented easily. It implements media codes not supported by Fedora. The tools I need from Scientific Linux are available. My old mentor, Mike Ferarri, uses Fedora, so I have support if I break my system. Luckily the documentation for Fedora is thorough. The Korora Project does not support a forum, but there’s an activity thread for help via this Engage link, or you can access their IRC Channel. The volunteers are very quick in helping new users. If you want to be involved in helping a distro, consider contacting the Korora Project. The Korora Project team members are largely based in Australia, so a time delay may apply.
The main tools I use for my job are varied – like my daily job duties. As a research coordinator, I have recruited individuals for clinical studies, written manuscripts, collected data sets, processed data sets, managed projects, trained new hires, done basic statistical analysis, edited videos, taken photographs, encrypted files, and other duties as needed. Fedora has the basic tools, while Korora fills in the gaps. I use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, GIMP, R, Gnuplot, Veracrypt, Planner, and other tools. I will cover these items from a rpm perspective, however I will include instructions for Debian-based distros when needed.
Before getting into the tutorials on the various programs I employ, let’s do a short review of the Korora OS. The default DE for Fedora is Gnome, however there are Fedora Spins. The Fedora Spins would be equivalent to Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu. It is from these Spins the Korora Project enables XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, and Gnome. I originally used Gnome, but my hardware barely supported it.
I employ the MATE DE. This is the default layout as seen below left. They use Plank on the left side of the display, which is reminiscent of Gnome. It comes loaded with LibreOffice, Firefox, and the standard fare of programs that appear on most Linux Distros today. If a person uses Ubuntu MATE, then using Korora MATE would be an easy transition.
However, there are some key differences between Ubuntu and Korora. The installation process is a bit of a bump using the Anaconda Installer by Fedora. You have to reclaim your hard drive space, and then approve it. Ubuntu has an easier installer. The command-line interface is very different, using
sudo dnf install
versus
sudo apt-get commands. The software center is in transition for the non-Gnome desktop environments. For a number of years, Yum Extender was the graphical software center, now it is being transitioned to DNFdragora, which will be released in future Korora editions. Yum Extender is a dead project, and DNFdragora is the new replacement.
In the upcoming months, I will peek into the various ways I use Linux in my job.