Highlights from the Era of Open Source Web-Based Tools
K. Anderson, Julie A. Harris, Lydia Ng, Pjotr Prins, Sara Memar, Bengt Ljungquist, Daniel Fürth, Robert W. Williams, Giorgio A. Ascoli, Dani Dumitriu
Abstract
High digital connectivity and a focus on reproducibility are contributing to an open science revolution in neuroscience. Repositories and platforms have emerged across the whole spectrum of subdisciplines, paving the way for a paradigm shift in the way we share, analyze, and reuse vast amounts of data collected across many laboratories. Here, we describe how open access web-based tools are changing the landscape and culture of neuroscience, highlighting six free resources that span subdisciplines from behavior to whole-brain mapping, circuits, neurons, and gene variants.
Topics & Concepts
Open scienceComputer scienceReuseData scienceOpen sourceWorld Wide WebFocus (optics)Open dataHuman–computer interactionSoftwareBiologyEcologyOpticsProgramming languageAstronomyPhysicsCell Image Analysis TechniquesBioinformatics and Genomic NetworksSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics