brainlife.io: A decentralized and open source cloud platform to support neuroscience research
Published in arXiv, 2023
Recommended citation: Hayashi, S., Caron, B. A., Heinsfeld, A. S., Vinci-Booher, S., McPherson, B., Bullock, D. N., ... & Pestilli, F. (2023). brainlife. io: A decentralized and open source cloud platform to support neuroscience research. ArXiv.Current Research in Neurobiology, revision under review, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02183 https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.02183.pdf
doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02183
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. this http URL 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. this http URL automatically tracks the provenance history of thousands of data objects, supporting simplicity, efficiency, and transparency in neuroscience research. Here this http URL’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 this http URL’s services produce outputs that adhere to best practices in modern neuroscience research.
