INCF 2018

Canadian Brain Informatics Infrastructure

Nobel Forum - Stockholm - April 24, 2018

Samir Das
Associate Director of Research Software Development

McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
Montreal Neurological Institute

TOSI

Data Flow

BigBrain

Quebec Parkinson Network

OMEGA

  • Open MEG Archive

  • First open MEG repository

  • 180 user accounts created

  • Associated structural data

  • 500+ reads on academia.edu
  • Cited 295 times
  • Control data for NDAR
  • Longitudinal study (8 years)
  • 532 subjects
  • 8000 distinct variables
  • 37000 individual assessments
  • T1, T2, PD, DTI, Spectroscopy
  • ∼3TB of imaging data
  • 2000 MRI acquisitions

  • Autism infant brain development
  • 3000+ scans
  • 700+ subjects
  • 7000 distinct variables
  • 150,000+ individual assessments
  • T1, T2, DTI, BOLD
  • ∼5 TBs imaging data
  • Genetic/biospecimen data

What are we planning on doing?

Interoperability & API Building

LORIS API

Ethics Framework

Hackathons

Important value of hackathons to data sharing initiatives

Data Publishing
- Not Data Sharing -

Thank you!Acknowledgements: Alan Evans, Alex Zijdenbos, Dario Vins, Jonathan Harlap, Matt Charlet, Andrew Corderey, Sebastian Muehlboeck, Reza Adalat, Louis Collins, Vladimir Fonov, Marc Rousseau, Mia Petkova, Rathi Gnanasekaran, David Brownlee, Tarek Sherif, Pierre Rioux, Nic Kassis, Leigh MacIntyre, Claude Lepage, Ilana Leppert, Natasha Beck, Tristan Glatard, Bert Vincent, Lindsay Lewis, Najma Mahani, Elodie Portales-Casamar, Alden Woodward, Sylvain Milot, Jean Francois Malouin, Sylvain Baillet, Daniel Kroetz, Martin Weiss, Mathieu Desrosier, Jason Karamchandani, Amit Bar-Or, Ted Fon, John Brietner, Derek Lo, Patrick Bermudez, Chris Steele, Pamela Patterson and one of my favourites: Pierre Bellec!

Special thanks to INCF...

and especially Mathew Abrams!