OMEGA: The Open MEG Archive

Guiomar Niso; Christine Rogers; Jeremy T Moreau; Li-Yuan Chen; Cecile Madjar; Samir Das; Elizabeth Bock; François Tadel; Alan C Evans; Pierre Jolicoeur; Sylvain Baillet

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.028

OMEGA: The Open MEG Archive

Neuroimage. 2016 Jan 1;124(Pt B):1182-1187. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.028. Epub 2015 Apr 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: guiomar.niso@mcgill.ca.
² McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: christine.rogers@mcgill.ca.
³ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: jeremy.moreau@mail.mcgill.ca.
⁴ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: li-yuan.chen@mail.mcgill.ca.
⁵ Douglas Mental Health University Institute, 6875 Boulevard Lasalle, Verdun, QC H4H 1R3 Canada. Electronic address: cecile.madjar@gmail.com.
⁶ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: samir.das@mcgill.ca.
⁷ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: elizabeth.bock@mcgill.ca.
⁸ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: francois.tadel@mcgill.ca.
⁹ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: alan@bic.mni.mcgill.ca.
¹⁰ Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Département de psychologie Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada. Electronic address: pierre.jolicoeur@umontreal.ca.
¹¹ McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 University St. Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. Electronic address: sylvain.baillet@mcgill.ca.

PMID: 25896932
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.028

Abstract

In contrast with other imaging modalities, there is presently a scarcity of fully open resources in magnetoencephalography (MEG) available to the neuroimaging community. Here we present a collaborative effort led by the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and the Université de Montréal to build and share a centralised repository to curate MEG data in raw and processed form for open dissemination. The Open MEG Archive (OMEGA, omega.bic.mni.mcgill.ca) is bound to become a continuously expanding repository of multimodal data with a primary focus on MEG, in addition to storing anatomical MRI volumes, demographic participant data and questionnaires, and other forms of electrophysiological data such as EEG. The OMEGA initiative offers both the technological framework for multi-site MEG data aggregation, and serves as one of the largest freely available resting-state and eventually task-related MEG datasets presently available.

Keywords: Database; EEG; Electrophysiology; MEG; MRI; Open-access.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Databases, Factual*
Electroencephalography
Humans
Information Dissemination*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetoencephalography*
Neuroimaging