Japan

Japan’s open neuroscience ecosystem is anchored by a national brain mapping programme and a genomic data archive that forms part of the global INSDC infrastructure, both with strong open data commitments.

Brain Mapping

RIKEN CBS (RIKEN Center for Brain Science) is a dedicated Japanese neuroscience institute operating under RIKEN, funded by MEXT, and the lead institution for MINDS (Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies), Japan’s national brain mapping programme funded by AMED. Brain/MINDS produces a comprehensive open atlas of the common marmoset brain, accessible at https://dataportal.brainminds.jp without registration. Phase 2 (Brain/MINDS Beyond) extends toward human neuroimaging at population scale, with the SRPBS Multi-Disorder Neuroimaging Dataset deposited on OpenNeuro. RIKEN CBS operates an institutional open data policy through the RIKEN Open Life Science Platform and was selected as a Core Centre for the AMED Neuroscience Integration Programme in 2023.

Genomic Data Infrastructure

DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan) is Japan’s member of the INSDC (International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration), synchronising daily with ENA and NCBI SRA to form the global open nucleotide sequence archive. JGA (Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive) is Japan’s controlled-access repository for sensitive human genomic data, equivalent to EGA in Europe.