The BRAIN Initiative data-sharing ecosystem: Characteristics, challenges, benefits, and opportunities
- Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Department of History, Purdue University, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, United States
- Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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Figure 1
BRAIN Initiative data archive ecosystem connections.
Summary of the main BRAIN Initiative data archive ecosystem connections currently enabling data upload, access (ability to download), analysis (which includes short-term data storage), and mirroring …
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Table 1
BRAIN Initiative data archive ecosystem key statistics and related information.
Sources: For Host Institution, Initial Funding Date, Total NIH Support, Administering ICO, and Funding ICO, information was taken from the NIH RePORTER entry for the most recent award for each …
| Archive | Host Institution | Initial Funding Date | Total NIH Support (USD)* | Administering ICO | Funding ICO | Data Types Hosted | Data Formats Supported | Publicly Available Datasets* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brain Image Library (BIL) | Carnegie-Mellon University | 2017 | $6,767,625 | NIMH | NIMH | Confocal microscopy | DICOM or NIfTI; for derived data, any format as long as primary data are in the required format | 8418 |
| Brain Observatory Storage Service and Database (BossDB) | Johns Hopkins University | 2018 | $5,133,219 | NIMH | NIMH | Electron microscopy; x-ray microtomography | PNG; APNG; JPG; BMP; GIF; PSD | 50 |
| Data Archive for the BRAIN Initiative (DABI) | University of Southern California | 2018 | $6,160,745 | NIMH | NINDS | Focus on invasive neurophysiology; houses all imaging and brain signal data | EDF, Biosemi (.bdf), BrainVision (.eeg,.vhdr,.vmrk), EEGLAB (.set,.fdt), Blackrock NeuroPort (.nev,.nsX), Intan (.rhd,.rhs), MATLAB files (.mat,.m); iEEG-BIDS, NWB, or DABI | 110 |
| Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration (DANDI) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2019 | $8,309,010 | NIMH | NIMH | Cellular neurophysiology, neuroimaging, and microscopy | BIDS; NWB | 640 |
| NeuroElectroMagnetic data Archive and tools Resource (NEMAR) | University of California, San Diego | 2019 | $4,464,874 | NIMH | NIMH | EEG, MEG | BIDS | 297 |
| Neuroscience Multi-Omic Data Archive (NeMO) | University of Maryland, Baltimore | 2017 | $9,347,683 | NIMH | NIMH | Multi-omics | FASTQ; TSV; BAM; BIGWIG; MEX; LIST; BED; QBED; CSV; H5; BIGBED; LOOM; MTX; ASPX | 49 |
| OpenNeuro | Stanford University | 2018 | $7,254,848 | NIMH | NIMH | MRI, PET, MEG, EEG, iEEG | BIDS | 1076 |
