Center for Open Neuroscience — CON

Overview

The Center for Open Neuroscience (CON) is a research center at Dartmouth College whose primary output is open-source tools and data infrastructure for reproducible neuroscience. CON develops DataLad (distributed data management), NeuroDebian (a neuroscience software distribution for Debian and Ubuntu), and co-leads the DANDI Archive for neurophysiology data under the NIH BRAIN Initiative.

Key Projects

DataLad

DataLad is a distributed data management system built on Git and git-annex that enables version-controlled sharing and access of large scientific datasets. CON is the primary developing institution. DataLad is widely adopted at OpenNeuro, DANDI Archive, and across ReproNim workflows.

DANDI Archive

The Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration (DANDI Archive) is a cloud-native platform for sharing and processing neurophysiology data. CON co-leads development with the MIT McGovern Institute (PI: Satrajit Ghosh) under a NIH BRAIN Initiative grant (1R24MH117295).

NeuroDebian

NeuroDebian is a software distribution providing maintained and packaged neuroscience tools for Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems, covering neuroimaging, electrophysiology, machine learning, and computational neuroscience. CON develops and maintains NeuroDebian in collaboration with the Debian community.

EMBER

The EMBER Archive (Ecosystem for Multi-modal Brain-behavior Experimentation and Research) is the BRAIN Initiative data archive for multimodal neurophysiological and behavioural data, supporting the BBQS programme. CON is a co-developing institution alongside JHU/APL, UCLA, UPenn, and MIT.

Connections

• fundedBy: NIH BRAIN Initiative (DANDI and EMBER grants)
• relatedTo: DANDI Archive (co-leads DANDI development)
• relatedTo: EMBER Archive (CON is a co-developing institution)
• relatedTo: ReproNim (shared reproducibility tooling ecosystem, with overlapping personnel and projects)
• relatedTo: OpenNeuro (DataLad is the data management backend for OpenNeuro)

Resources

• https://centerforopenneuroscience.org
• https://centerforopenneuroscience.org/projects (full project list)
• https://centerforopenneuroscience.org/whoweare (team)
• https://ror.org/04tfhh831 (ROR identifier)
• https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2012.00022 (Halchenko & Hanke 2012 — founding methodology paper)