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Data repositories

This section contains links to "open" data resources, that can be accessed for research purposes. For some of them, a formal request to the organization or to the data curation team may be required.

This Wikipedia also has a nice list with some more suggestions.

Generic

GIN - The equivalent of github but for data. Based in Europe.
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {MRI} {EEG} {iEEG} {ECoG} {human} {non-human}
  • datalad compatible: yes
  • paper: 10.12751/incf.ni2017.0040
  • RRID: SCR_015864
  • The G-Node Data Infrastructure Services provides a platform for comprehensive and reproducible management and sharing of neuroscience data. Building on well established versioning technology, GIN offers the power of a web based repository management service combined with a distributed file storage.
    • Very similar to github but for data.
    • As it is based in Europe, this can an interesting option for GDPR compliance.
OSF - The interface can be slow and clunky but it can definitely be used to host and share data... and many other things.
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: pretty much anything goes
  • datalad compatible:
  • paper
  • RRID: SCR_017419
  • OSF is a platform to support research and enable collaboration. Used to discover projects, data, materials, and collaborators helpful to your own research.
eBrains - For human & non-human data sets matching specific criteria
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {human} {non-human} {fMRI} {MRI} {EEG} {DWI} {histology}
  • datalad compatible:
  • paper
  • RRID:

NeuroImaging

To get an exhaustive list of the datasets and databases available out there, you should first go to the data section of the Neuroimaging Tools an Resources Collaboratory.

MRI/fMRI

OpenNeuro - A go to for MRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG, and ECoG data
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {MRI} {EEG} {iEEG} {ECoG} {human}
  • datalad compatible: yes
  • paper
  • RRID: SCR_005031
  • Open platform for analyzing and sharing neuroimaging data from human brain imaging research studies. Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) compliant database. Formerly known as OpenfMRI. Platform for sharing MRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG, and ECoG data.
Neurovault - The place for your group results.
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {MRI} {PET} {human} {non-human}
  • datalad compatible: yes
  • paper:
  • RRID: SCR_003806
  • A data repository where researchers can publicly store and share unthresholded statistical brain activation maps produced by MRI and PET studies.
INDI - International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative for rawdata
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {MRI} {PET} {human} {non-human} {EEG}
  • datalad compatible: yes
  • paper:
  • RRID: [SCR_015771]
  • A data repository containing the 1000 Functional Connectomes project with more than 1200 resting state fMRI indenpendently collected at 33 sites. Age, sex and imaging center information are provided for each of the datasets. In accordance with HIPAA guidelines, all datasets are anonymous, with no protected health information included. The repository also provides INDI prospective and retrospective data Sharing Samples (resting state fMRI, behavioural, DTI, PET,...).
ACPI - Addiction Connectome Preprocessed Initiative
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {MRI} {resting state} {ADHD} {human}
  • datalad compatible: yes
  • paper:
  • The Addiction Connectome Preprocessed Initiative (ACPI) aims to facilitate the image processing and analysis of datasets generated by NIDA investigators, with a particular focus on the determination of robustness to preprocessing decisions. In this regard, we are providing 8 preprocessed versions of the resting state fMRI datasets. ACPI includes 2 datasets, raw and preprocessed data (158 Subjects, 129 Anatomicla Scans, 185 Resting Functional Scans).
BALSA (Brain Analysis Library of Spatial Maps and Atlases) - A database for neuroimaging and neuroanatomical datasets for human and primate species.
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type:{MRI} {PET} {human} {non-human} {DTI}
  • datalad compatible:
  • paper:
  • BALSA hosts two types of extensively analyzed neuroimaging data. BALSA Studies: extensively analyzed neuroimaging data associated with published figures. BALSA Reference: reference data mapped to brain atlas surfaces and volumes in humans and nonhuman primates
MCP (Mouse Connectome Project).
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {mouse} {fluorescent label}
  • datalad compatible:
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  • RRID: [SCR_004096] (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mcp/)
  • The CIC, home of the Mouse Connectome Project (MCP) seeks to create a complete mesoscale connectivity atlas of the C57Black/6 mouse brain and to subsequently generate its global neural networks. Multiple fluorescent neural dyes are used to trace all of the connections of the roughly 800 identified structures of the mouse brain. Our crossdisciplinary group develops neuroanatomic and neuroinformatic approaches to understand connectivity patterns in both health and disease.
ABIDE - the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {human} {healthy} {autism} {fMRI} {MRI} {resting state}
  • paper
  • RRID: SCR_003612
  • Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) datasets from 539 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 573 typical controls. This initiative involved 16 international sites, sharing 20 samples yielding 1112 datasets composed of both MRI data and an extensive array of phenotypic information common across nearly all sites. This effort is expected to facilitate discovery science and comparisons across samples. All datasets are anonymous, with no protected health information included.
ADNI - Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
  • database repository
  • contact
  • data type: {human} {alzheimer} {MRI} {fMRI} {PET}
  • paper
  • RRID: SCR_003007
  • Database of the results of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative study. ADNI is an initiative to develop biomarker-based methods to detect and track the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that provides access to qualified scientists to their database of imaging, clinical, genomic, and biomarker data.
IXI Dataset - Brain Development from ICL
  • database repository
  • contact: Biomedical Image Analysis Group, Imperial College London
  • data type: {human} {MRI} {DTI}
  • RRID: SCR_005839
  • Nearly 600 MR images from normal, healthy subjects. The MR image acquisition protocol for each subject includes: T1, T2 and PD-weighted images, MRA images, and Diffusion-weighted images (15 directions).

fNIRS

Electrophysiology

You definitely want to check this list openly available electrophysiological data, including EEG, MEG, ECoG/iEEG, and LFP data compiled by Tom Donoghue

Surface (EEG/MEG)

Intracranial (ECoG / iEEG / LFP / Single cell)