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RIKEN CBS — RIKEN Center for Brain Science

Overview

RIKEN Center for Brain Science (RIKEN CBS) is a national neuroscience research centre in Wakō, Saitama, Japan, established in 2018 through the reorganisation of the former RIKEN Brain Science Institute (founded 1997). It is a dedicated neuroscience institute operating under RIKEN (the national research institute for natural sciences) and funded by MEXT. RIKEN CBS conducts multilevel research from molecular and cellular neuroscience to circuit function, cognition, and neurological and psychiatric disease, with particular strengths in marmoset neuroscience, systems neuroscience, and computational approaches.

Open Science and Data Sharing

Brain/MINDS Data Portal

RIKEN CBS manages the Brain/MINDS Data Portal on behalf of the Brain/MINDS Database Council, providing open-access marmoset brain atlas data without registration requirements. It is the primary open data output of the MINDS programme and covers structural and diffusion MRI, two-photon microscopy, viral vector tracing, and transcriptomics datasets.

RIKEN Data Policy

RIKEN’s institutional data policy, formally titled the Basic Policy on Management, Disclosure, Sharing, and Use of Research Data, was adopted on March 25, 2020. It establishes that research data generated at RIKEN is regarded as common property of the people of Japan and shall in principle be publicly disclosed. The policy defines a three-tier access model: publicly disclosed data, data with restricted external access, and data with restricted internal access. All useful data must be registered in a repository with metadata conforming to internationally recognised standards, retained for a minimum of 10 years, and licensing requirements for secondary use must be specified in advance. The policy is operationalised through the RIKEN Open Science Portal and each RIKEN centre implements it through centre-specific guidelines. RIKEN CBS also participates in the RIKEN Open Life Science Platform (OLSP), which coordinates open sharing of life sciences data across RIKEN centres.

AMED Neuroscience Integration Programme

In 2023, RIKEN CBS was selected as a Core Centre for the AMED Neuroscience Integration Programme (FY2023), led by Director Ryuichiro Kageyama. This programme uses a CBS-developed repository system to share data with participating Japanese neuroscience institutions, with a focus on integrated brain data platforms and computational brain modelling for Brain/MINDS 2.0.

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  • Leads: MINDS programme
  • Parent organisation: RIKEN

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