DANDI: Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration

DANDI：神经生理学数据集成的分布式档案

• 批准号: 9795271
• 负责人: Satrajit Sujit Ghosh
• 金额: $ 134.97万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9795271
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; Architecture; Archives; Atlases; Award; BRAIN initiative; Brain; Cells; Client; Collaborations; Communities; Computer software; Data; Data Collection; Data Provenance; Data Set; Data Storage and Retrieval; Decision Making; Development; Devices; Encapsulated; Excision; FAIR principles; Fostering; Future; Human; Imagery; Improve Access; Individual; Informatics; Infrastructure; Ingestion; Institutes; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Internet; Intuition; Laboratories; Link; Metadata; Morphologic artifacts; Nervous system structure; Neurosciences; Problem Solving; Process; Protocols documentation; Provider; Publishing; Registries; Reproducibility; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Retrieval; Route; Sample Size; Science; Scientific Inquiry; Scientist; Services; Software Engineering; Standardization; Students; System; Technical Expertise; Technology; Thinking; Time; Training Support; Training and Education; Visualization software; Work; application programming interface; base; citizen science; cloud platform; cluster computing; college; community building; computational neuroscience; computerized data processing; computing resources; data access; data archive; data exchange; data format; data integration; data submission; experience; experimental study; high school; interoperability; neurophysiology; open data; open source; operation; preservation; resilience; tool; web interface

Neuroscientific data contain information from an incredible diversity of species, are generated by a plethora of devices, and encapsulate the results of scientific thinking and decision making. Most of this generated data remains confined within laboratories and is not accessible to the broader scientific community. The research projects awarded under the Brain Initiative are generating a diverse collection of data that can transform and accelerate the pace of discovery. These datasets are large--ranging in size from GBs to PBs-- and represent diverse data types and assorted metadata. To integrate, rather than further isolate, these numerous efforts there is a need to archive, preserve, share, and process data in a way that is meaningful to neuroscience researchers. Any technological solution should reduce redundancy of storage and computation, allow computing near data, and provide easy, but protected when appropriate, access to researchers or citizen scientists. Given the scale of these initiatives and the range of sample sizes and data types, any solution should also consider the broad range of individual technical expertise in the community and therefore allow easy engagement with and ingestion into an archive, while supporting education and training of the scientists in using these technologies. To solve these problems, we propose ​DANDI: Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration.​We leverage our team’s extensive experience in informatics, standards development, software engineering, community building, and leverage a robust open-source software stack to create this archive. The archive will lower barriers for neuroscientists by using the ​Neurodata Without Borders (NWB; ​http://nwb.org​) standard as a consistent data format, by providing interoperability with other standards, and by providing robust tools and convenient Web interfaces to interact with the archive. DANDI will: 1) ​provide a cloud platform for versioned neurophysiology data storage for the purposes of collaboration, archiving, and preservation. 2) ​provide easy to use tools for neurophysiology data submission and access in the archive; and 3) facilitate adoption of NWB via standardized applications for data ingestion, visualization and processing. ​We will work with local investigators, the broader neurophysiology community, and with federal and other funders to determine how long and which pieces of data will be stored in DANDI. The archive will also use state of the art data distribution technologies to increase redundancy and fault tolerance, and allow distributed computing across cloud and local computing resources. Consequently the effort will significantly reduce the barrier between laboratories and the cloud, fostering collaboration and data exchange. Overall, we aim to leverage our collective expertise to create and support an NWB-based neurophysiology archive that seamlessly integrates with and enhances current researcher workflows, lowers barriers for scientific inquiry and collaboration, and preserves information for wide reuse.

神经科学数据包含了难以置信的物种多样性的信息，是由过多的