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https://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/Resources-Tools/Blueprint-Resources-Tools-Library

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 22, 2023. National initiative to advance biomedical research through data sharing and online collaboration that provides data sharing infrastructure, software tools, strategies and advisory services. Groups may choose whether to share data internally or with external audiences. Hardware and data remain under control of individual user groups.

Proper citation: Biomedical Informatics Research Network (RRID:SCR_005163) Copy   

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http://www.math.mcgill.ca/keith/surfstat

A Matlab toolbox for the statistical analysis of univariate and multivariate surface data using linear mixed effects models and random field theory.

Proper citation: SurfStat (RRID:SCR_007081) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/bnv/

Aa brain network visualization tool, which can help researchers to visualize structural and functional connectivity patterns from different levels in a quick, easy, and flexible way.

Proper citation: BrainNet Viewer (RRID:SCR_009446) Copy   

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http://cytoseg.googlecode.com

A tool for automatic segmentation of 3D biological datasets, with emphasis on 3D electron microscopy. It works best for 3D blob shaped objects like mitochondria, lysosomes, etc. The project is written in Python and uses the pythonxy platform (which includes scipy and ITK image processing tools).

Proper citation: Cytoseg (RRID:SCR_009553) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/nihlungseg/

A segmentation tool for the segmentation of a lung from CT images. The sofware can be run in two modes: fully automatic and semi-automatic with manual seeding by the user. The software also allows the user to perform basic filtering operations and manual correction to the segmentation. The VTK-based rendering implementation, along with option to view in axial, coronal, and sagittal, provides the user with better visualization of the segmented lung.

Proper citation: NIH-CIDI Lung Segmentation Tool (RRID:SCR_014150) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/nutil/

Software toolbox to simplify and streamline mechanism of pre and post processing 2D brain image data. Neuroscience image processing and analysis utilities. Stand alone application that runs on all operating systems. Nutil is part of the QUINT workflow.

Proper citation: Nutil - Neuroimaging utilities (RRID:SCR_017183) Copy   

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http://www.mouseconnectome.org/

Three-dimensional digital connectome atlas of the C57Black/6J mouse brain and catalog of neural tracer injection cases, which will eventually cover the entire brain. Serial sections of each case are available to view at 10x magnification in the interactive iConnectome viewer. The Image Gallery provides a glimpse into some of the highlights of their data set. Representative images of multi-fluorescent tracer labeling can be viewed, while more in depth examination of these and all other cases can be performed in the iConnectome viewer. Phase 1 of this project involves generating a physical map of the basic global wiring diagram by applying proven, state of the art experimental circuit tracing methods systematically, uniformly, and comprehensively to the structural organization of all major neuronal pathways in the mouse brain. Connectivity imaging data for the whole mouse brain at cellular resolution will be presented within a standard 3D anatomic frame available through the website and accompanied by a comprehensive searchable online database. A Phase 2 goal for the future will allow users to view, search, and generate driving direction-like roadmaps of neuronal pathways linking any and all structures in the nervous system. This could be looked on as a pilot project for more ambitious projects in species with larger brains, such as human, and for providing a reliable framework for more detailed local circuitry mapping projects in the mouse.

Proper citation: Mouse Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_004096) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/mixge/

MATLAB Toolbox which provides a mixed effect model for gene-environment interaction (MixGE) on neuroimaging phenotypes, such as structural volumes and tensor-based morphometry (TBM). This model incorporates both fixed and random effects of genetic-set and environment interaction in order to investigate homogeneous and heterogeneous contributions of sets of genetic variants and their interactions with environmental risks to phenotypes.

Proper citation: Mixed Effect Model of Genetic-Set and Environment Interaction (RRID:SCR_015514) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/mica/

Software toolbox based on FSL command line tools that performs masked independent component analysis and related analyses in an integrated way within a spatially restricted subregion of the brain. Used for investigating functional connectivity in functional magnetic resonance imaging data in the field of neuroimaging.

Proper citation: masked ICA (mICA) Toolbox (RRID:SCR_016349) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/colin3t7t

High-field extension of the Colin27 single-subject atlas with additional high-resolution, quantitative, averaged scans at both 3T and 7T.

Proper citation: Colin 3T/7T High-resolution Atlas (RRID:SCR_000160) Copy   

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http://www.dian-info.org/default.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. An international research partnership of leading scientists determined to understand a rare form of Alzheimers disease that is caused by a gene mutation and to establish a research database and tissue repository to support research on Alzheimers disease by other investigators around the world. One goal of DIAN is to study possible brain changes that occur before Alzheimers disease is expressed in people who carry an Alzheimers disease mutation. Other family members without a mutation will serve as a comparison group. People in families in which a mutation has been identified will be tracked in order to detect physical or mental changes that might distinguish people who inherited the mutation from those who did not. DIAN currently involves eleven outstanding research institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. John C. Morris, M.D., Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the principal investigator of the project., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: DIAN - Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (RRID:SCR_000812) Copy   

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http://ibvd.virtualbrain.org/

A database of brain neuroanatomic volumetric observations spanning various species, diagnoses, and structures for both individual and group results. A major thrust effort is to enable electronic access to the results that exist in the published literature. Currently, there is quite limited electronic or searchable methods for the data observations that are contained in publications. This effort will facilitate the dissemination of volumetric observations by making a more complete corpus of volumetric observations findable to the neuroscience researcher. This also enhances the ability to perform comparative and integrative studies, as well as metaanalysis. Extensions that permit pre-published, non-published and other representation are planned, again to facilitate comparative analyses. Design strategy: The principle organizing data structure is the "publication". Publications report on "groups" of subjects. These groups have "demographic" information as well as "volume" information for the group as a whole. Groups are comprised of "individuals", which also have demographic and volume information for each of the individuals. The finest-grained data structure is the "individual volume record" which contains a volume observation, the units for the observation, and a pointer to the demographic record for individual upon which the observation is derived. A collection of individual volumes can be grouped into a "group volume" observation; the group can be demographically characterized by the distribution of individual demographic observations for the members of the group.

Proper citation: Internet Brain Volume Database (RRID:SCR_002060) Copy   

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http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org

Service (Beta) that allows users to search the DataCite Metadata Store, and add their research outputs including datasets, software, and others to their ORCID profile. This should increase the visibility of these research data, and will make it easier to use these data citations in applications that connect to the ORCID Registry. In addition, the service is also providing formatted citations in several popular citation styles, supports COinS, links to related resources, and displays the attached Creative Commons license where this information is available. The DataCite Metadata Store of course also contains many text documents from academic publishers and services such as figshare or PeerJ Preprints, and these works can also be claimed. This tool is a collaborative effort by ORCID, CrossRef and DataCite.

Proper citation: ODIN (RRID:SCR_001386) Copy   

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http://mindboggle.info/data.html

Complete set of free, publicly accessible, downloadable atlases, templates, and individual manually labeled brain image data, the largest collection of publicly available, manually labeled human brains in the world! http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2012.00171/full

Proper citation: Mindboggle-101 atlases (RRID:SCR_002439) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/primate_atlas/

Symmetric atlas of the primate brain created using 18 cases of rhesus macaques aged 16-34 months. It includes the T1-weighted image (with and without skull), and also tissue segmentation probability maps (white matter, gray matter, CSF, rest), subcortical structures segmentation (amygdala, caudate, hippocampus, pallidus, putamen), and a lobar parcellation map. You can find more details about the creation of this atlas in the following paper : M. Styner, R. Knickmeyer, S. Joshi, C. Coe, S. J. Short, and J. Gilmore. Automatic brain segmentation in rhesus monkeys. In Proc SPIE Vol 6512, Medical Imaging, 2007, pp. 65122 L1-8

Proper citation: UNC Primate Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_002570) Copy   

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http://www.med.unc.edu/bric/ideagroup/free-softwares/unc-infant-0-1-2-atlases

3 atlases dedicated for neonates, 1-year-olds, and 2-year-olds. Each atlas comprises a set of 3D images made up of the intensity model, tissue probability maps, and anatomical parcellation map. These atlases are constructed with the help of state-of-the-art infant MR segmentation and groupwise registration methods, on a set of longitudinal images acquired from 95 normal infants (56 males and 39 females) at neonate, 1-year-old, and 2-year-old.

Proper citation: UNC Infant 0-1-2 Atlases (RRID:SCR_002569) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/saibn/

A 3D stereoscopic (anaglyph method) full brain functional connectivity atlas created using a parcellation atlas published by Craddock et al. (2012). Using 3D Slicer 3.6.3 and the two hundred Region of Interest (ROI) version of the Craddock atlas, 200 grayscale surface models were created using a z-stat threshold > 2.3, and each surface model was processed with a surface decimation algorithm, smoothed with the Taubin algorithm and without surface normals. For improved visualization of the functional connectivity networks and their relative anatomical position, the surface model of five subcortical anatomical structures (corpus callosum, bilateral caudate, pallidum, putamen, thalamus, amygdala and hippocampus) were included in SAIBN. These surfaces were created with 3D Slicer using the segmentation computed with Freesurfer v. 5.1. The viewer should use red-cyan glasses to see the 3D stereoscopic effect using 3D Slicer (version 3.6.3, http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:SlicerDownloads).

Proper citation: Stereoscopic Atlas of Intrinsic Brain Networks (RRID:SCR_002568) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/cluster_roi/

A set of tools for deriving region of interest (ROI) atlases by whole brain clustering of task or resting state data. This resource also contains several atlases derived by parcellating publicly available resting state fMRI datasets. The initial release will include python scripts and ROI atlases developed to perform the analyses described in Craddock et. al., A whole brain fMRI atlas generated via spatially constrained spectral clustering, which is currently in revision in Human Brain Mapping. The scripts provide all of the tools necessary to derive an ROI atlases using spatially constrained Ncut spectral clustering. The scripts require python, numpy and scipy to run. Source code and parcellations now available! Go to http://ccraddock.github.io/cluster_roi/ for more information.

Proper citation: Spatially Constrained Parcellation (RRID:SCR_002198) Copy   

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http://epilepsy.uni-freiburg.de/database

A comprehensive database for human surface and intracranial EEG data that is suitable for a broad range of applications e.g. of time series analyses of brain activity. Currently, the EU database contains annotated EEG datasets from more than 200 patients with epilepsy, 50 of them with intracranial recordings with up to 122 channels. Each dataset provides EEG data for a continuous recording time of at least 96 hours (4 days) at a sample rate of up to 2500 Hz. Clinical patient information and MR imaging data supplement the EEG data. The total duration of EEG recordings included execeeds 30000 hours. The database is composed of different modalities: Binary files with EEG recording / MR imaging data and Relational database for supplementary meta data.

Proper citation: EPILEPSIE database (RRID:SCR_003179) Copy   

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http://biosig.sourceforge.net/

Software library for processing of electroencephalogram (EEG) and other biomedical signals like electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocorticogram (ECoG), electrocardiogram (ECG), electrooculogram (EOG), electromyogram (EMG), respiration, and so on. Biosig contains tools for quality control, artifact processing, time series analysis, feature extraction, classification and machine learning, and tools for statistical analysis. Many tools are able to handle data with missing values (statistics, time series analysis, machine learning). Another feature is that more then 40 different data formats are supported, and a number of converters for EEG,, ECG and polysomnography are provided. Biosig has been widely used for scientific research on EEG-based BraiN-Computer Interfaces (BCI), sleep research, and ECG and HRV analysis. It provides software interfaces several programming languages (C, C++, Matlab/Octave, Python), and it provides also an interactive viewing and scoring software for adding, and editing of annotations, markers and events.

Proper citation: BioSig: An Imaging Bioinformatics System for Phenotypic Analysis (RRID:SCR_008428) Copy   

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