New modular software architecture and APIs to enable users/developers to efficiently interact with the NWB data format, format files, and specifications. Decoupled the various aspects of NWB:N (i.e. the specification language, format specification, storage, and API). This allows each…
Data sharing on a massive scale transformed the field of astronomy. Is neuroscience next? IF HISTORY IS A LESSON, neuroscience is due for a disruption. Open data—information that is free to access, use and share—has transformed the fields of astronomy,…
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has announced the release of the Allen Brain Observatory: a highly standardized survey of cellular-level activity in the mouse visual system. This dynamic tool empowers scientists to investigate how circuits in the behaving mouse…
An editorial in the European Journal of Neuroscience highlights the benefits of open-access publish and data sharing to careers in neuroscience. It is featured in a virtual issue of the journal focused on advice to early career neuroscients and is…
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…
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…