With scientists storing data in scores of different ways, Neurodata Without Borders provides a common format or “language" for brain data, beginning with neurophysiology An alliance of brain researchers and funders has announced a common data format to facilitate the…
A database of brain cells, and the new software platform that supports it, may finally reveal the cells’ identities—and supply scientists with a parts list for the brain. IMAGINE TRYING TO BUILD A MODEL with a blindfold on. It would…
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First-of-its-kind database of individual neurons enables scientists to understand fundamental building blocks of the brain The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today that it is taking the first major scientific step to create a searchable standards database for the…
From the cultural to the technical, neuroscience is handicapped by barriers that prevent researchers from sharing data. Three researchers discuss a new initiative to dismantle those barriers, Neurodata Without Borders. Most researchers broadly support the idea behind open data—that public…
The initiative is hoped to be a major step toward accelerating the pace of discoveries about the brain in health and disease. The Allen Institute for Brain Science, California Institute of Technology, New York University School of Medicine, the Howard…