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EBRAINS

Overview

EBRAINS is the open neuroscience research infrastructure created by the Human Brain Project (HBP) and launched as an independent infrastructure in 2020. It is the central European hub for brain data sharing, brain atlas services, simulation, and HPC for neuroscience. EBRAINS is integrated into EOSC as a key service provider, with datasets and services discoverable via the EOSC Portal and openMINDS metadata harvested for EU open science monitoring.

Key Services

EBRAINS Data and Knowledge

  • Dataset sharing uses the openMINDS metadata framework, with datasets receiving DOIs and being discoverable via the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph.
  • BIDS (neuroimaging) and NWB (neurophysiology) datasets are supported alongside custom modalities.
  • The EBRAINS Knowledge Graph is a semantic graph database linking datasets, models, software, publications, and researchers, queryable via API.

Brain Atlases

The EBRAINS Human Brain Atlas includes the Julich Brain Atlas (JBA), a probabilistic cytoarchitectonic atlas of 200+ cortical and subcortical areas developed at Forschungszentrum Jülich, as well as mouse, rat, macaque, and other species atlases. Brain region annotations use UBERON for cross-species interoperability, and all atlases are accessible via the EBRAINS Interactive Atlas Viewer.

Simulation and HPC

Neuromorphic Computing provides access to SpiNNaker (Manchester) and BrainScaleS (Heidelberg) neuromorphic hardware platforms. HPC access via the FENIX Research Infrastructure connects EBRAINS to European Tier-0 and Tier-1 supercomputing centres (CSCS, JSC, CINECA). NEST, NEURON, and TVB are simulation engines available via EBRAINS Lab.

Live Papers

Live Papers are interactive, reproducible scientific publications that embed data, code, and simulations directly in the paper so readers can re-execute analyses.

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