brainlife.io: A decentralized and open source cloud platform to support neuroscience research
Abstract
Neuroscience research has expanded dramatically over the past 30 years by advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, the complexity of the data pipeline has also increased, hindering access to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperabile, and Reusable) data analysis to portions of the worldwide research community. brainlife.io was developed to reduce these burdens and democratize modern neuroscience research across institutions and career levels. Using community software and hardware infrastructure, the platform provides open-source data standardization, management, visualization, and processing and simplifies the data pipeline. brainlife.io automatically tracks the provenance history of thousands of data objects, supporting simplicity, efficiency, and transparency in neuroscience research. Here brainlife.io's technology and data services are described and evaluated for validity, reliability, reproducibility, replicability, and scientific utility. Using data from 4 modalities and 3,200 participants, we demonstrate that brainlife.io's services produce outputs that adhere to best practices in modern neuroscience research.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.02183,
title = {brainlife.io: A decentralized and open source cloud platform to support neuroscience research},
author = {Soichi Hayashi and Bradley A. Caron and Anibal Sólon Heinsfeld and Sophia Vinci-Booher and Brent McPherson and Daniel N. Bullock and Giulia Bertò and Guiomar Niso and Sandra Hanekamp and Daniel Levitas and Kimberly Ray and Anne MacKenzie and Lindsey Kitchell and Josiah K. Leong and Filipi Nascimento-Silva and Serge Koudoro and Hanna Willis and Jasleen K. Jolly and Derek Pisner and Taylor R. Zuidema and Jan W. Kurzawski and Kyriaki Mikellidou and Aurore Bussalb and Christopher Rorden and Conner Victory and Dheeraj Bhatia and Dogu Baran Aydogan and Fang-Cheng F. Yeh and Franco Delogu and Javier Guaje and Jelle Veraart and Steffen Bollman and Ashley Stewart and Jeremy Fischer and Joshua Faskowitz and Maximilien Chaumon and Ricardo Fabrega and David Hunt and Shawn McKee and Shawn T. Brown and Stephanie Heyman and Vittorio Iacovella and Amanda F. Mejia and Daniele Marinazzo and R. Cameron Craddock and Emanuele Olivetti and Jamie L. Hanson and Paolo Avesani and Eleftherios Garyfallidis and Dan Stanzione and James Carson and Robert Henschel and David Y. Hancock and Craig A. Stewart and David Schnyer and Damian O. Eke and Russell A. Poldrack and Nathalie George and Holly Bridge and Ilaria Sani and Winrich A. Freiwald and Aina Puce and Nicholas L. Port and Franco Pestilli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02183},
year = {2024}
}