We have developed open-source software that allows a

wide array of data analysis procedures. The RUMBA software includes
programming tools that simplify the development of novel methods,

and accommodates data in several standard image formats. Ascripting interface,
along with programming libraries, defines a number of useful analytic procedures,
and provides an interface to data analysis procedures. The software also supports
a graphical functional programming environment for implementing data analysis

streams based on modular functiona components. With these features, the RUMBA

software provides researchers programmability, reusability, modular analysis tools,
novel data analysis streams, and an analysis environment in which multiple approaches
can be contrasted  and compared. The RUMBAsoftware retains the flexibility of
general scientific computing environments while adding a framework in

which both experts and novices can develop and adapt neuroimaging-specific analyses.