Toward Community-Driven Big Open Brain Science: Open Big Data and Tools for Structure, Function, and Genetics

Annu Rev Neurosci. 2020 Jul 8:43:441-464. doi: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-100119-110036. Epub 2020 Apr 13.

Abstract

As acquiring bigger data becomes easier in experimental brain science, computational and statistical brain science must achieve similar advances to fully capitalize on these data. Tackling these problems will benefit from a more explicit and concerted effort to work together. Specifically, brain science can be further democratized by harnessing the power of community-driven tools, which both are built by and benefit from many different people with different backgrounds and expertise. This perspective can be applied across modalities and scales and enables collaborations across previously siloed communities.

Keywords: computational; infrastructure; reference data; statistics.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Big Data*
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Computational Biology* / methods
  • Databases, Genetic
  • Gene Expression / physiology
  • Humans
  • Nerve Net / physiology*