{"id":70889,"date":"2025-10-27T18:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uol.ac.cy\/?p=70889"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:07:22","slug":"a-decentralized-and-open-source-cloud-platform-to-support-neuroscience-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uol.ac.cy\/en\/a-decentralized-and-open-source-cloud-platform-to-support-neuroscience-research\/","title":{"rendered":"A decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Neuroscience is advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, data pipeline complexity has increased, hindering FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) access. brainlife.io was developed to democratize neuroimaging research. The platform provides data standardization, management, visualization and processing and automatically tracks the provenance history of thousands of data objects. Here, brainlife.io is described and evaluated for validity, reliability, reproducibility, replicability and scientific utility using four data modalities and 3,200 participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Citation APA style including the year of publication: <\/strong>Hayashi, S., Caron, B.\u202fA., Heinsfeld, A.\u202fS., Vinci\u2011Booher, S., McPherson, B., Bullock, D.\u202fN., Bert\u00f2, G., Niso, G., Hanekamp, S., Levitas, D., Ray, K., MacKenzie, A., Avesani, P., Kitchell, L., Leong, J.\u202fK., Nascimento\u2011Silva, F., Koudoro, S., Willis, H., Jolly, J.\u202fK., Pisner, D., Zuidema, T.\u202fR., Kurzawski, J.\u202fW., Mikellidou, K., Bussalb, A., Chaumon, M., George, N., Rorden, C., Victory, C., Bhatia, D., Aydogan, D.\u202fB., Yeh, F.\u2011C.\u202fF., Delogu, F., Guaje, J., Veraart, J., Fischer, J., Faskowitz, J., Fabreg\u00e1, R., Hunt, D., McKee, S., Brown, S.\u202fT., Heyman, S., Iacovella, V., Mejia, A.\u202fF., Marinazzo, D., Craddock, R.\u202fC., Olivetti, E., Hanson, J.\u202fL., Garyfallidis, E., Stanzione, D., Carson, J., Henschel, R., Hancock, D.\u202fY., Stewart, C.\u202fA., Schnyer, D., Eke, D.\u202fO., Poldrack, R.\u202fA., Bollmann, S., Stewart, A., Bridge, H., Sani, I., Freiwald, W.\u202fA., Puce, A., Port, N.\u202fL., &amp; Pestilli, F. (2024). brainlife.io: A decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research. Nature Methods, 21(5), 809\u2013813.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-buttons uagb-buttons__outer-wrap uagb-btn__default-btn uagb-btn-tablet__default-btn uagb-btn-mobile__default-btn uagb-block-ea72dffc\"><div class=\"uagb-buttons__wrap uagb-buttons-layout-wrap \">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-buttons-child uagb-buttons__outer-wrap uagb-block-5c404172 wp-block-button\"><div class=\"uagb-button__wrapper\"><a class=\"uagb-buttons-repeater wp-block-button__link\" aria-label=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1038%2Fs41592-024-02237-2&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cp.efstathiou%40uol.ac.cy%7C408a1d2dda224fe442ba08ddc8e64fd1%7Cb5e1322f342e4a7ebb1e78d50e9fd700%7C0%7C0%7C638887613707547120%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=U8Jd4bX98W%2F9QTPKpDCescp%2FhBLXR04JrCDGDTdmNU4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\"><div class=\"uagb-button__link\">learn more<\/div><span class=\"uagb-button__icon uagb-button__icon-position-after\"><svg xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focussable=\"false\"><path d=\"M438.6 278.6l-160 160C272.4 444.9 264.2 448 256 448s-16.38-3.125-22.62-9.375c-12.5-12.5-12.5-32.75 0-45.25L338.8 288H32C14.33 288 .0016 273.7 .0016 256S14.33 224 32 224h306.8l-105.4-105.4c-12.5-12.5-12.5-32.75 0-45.25s32.75-12.5 45.25 0l160 160C451.1 245.9 451.1 266.1 438.6 278.6z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Neuroscience is advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, data pipeline complexity has increased, hindering FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) access. brainlife.io was developed to democratize neuroimaging research. The platform provides data standardization, management, visualization and processing and automatically tracks the provenance history of thousands of data objects. 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