Toward Community-Driven Big Open Brain Science: Open Big Data and Tools for Structure, Function, and Genetics
Adam S. Charles, Benjamin Falk, Nicholas L. Turner, Talmo Pereira, Daniel J. Tward, Benjamin D. Pedigo, Jaewon Chung, Randal Burns, Satrajit Ghosh, Justus M. Kebschull, William Silversmith, Joshua T Vogelstein
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.