SWC — Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Overview
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre is a systems neuroscience research institute at University College London that operates an explicit mandate to share all data, analysis code, and experimental protocols publicly alongside publications, and is the home institution of the BrainGlobe Initiative, a widely used open-source Python toolkit for computational neuroanatomy providing atlas registration, cell detection, and a cross-species Atlas API. It opened in 2016, jointly funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Wellcome, with research programmes spanning electrophysiology, calcium imaging, optogenetics, and computational modelling.
Connections
- relatedTo: NWB (BrainGlobe pipelines used in NWB-compatible workflows; SWC co-hosted NeuroDataShare 2023)
- relatedTo: BIDS (BrainGlobe data organisation conventions compatible with BIDS)
- relatedTo: DANDI Archive (SWC lab datasets deposited to DANDI; BrainGlobe is used as a downstream analysis tool for DANDI electrophysiology data)
- relatedTo: KISN (BrainGlobe named partner; shared electrophysiology tool ecosystem)