Neurodata Without Borders: Creating a Common Data Format for Neurophysiology

Jeffery L Teeters; Keith Godfrey; Rob Young; Chinh Dang; Claudia Friedsam; Barry Wark; Hiroki Asari; Simon Peron; Nuo Li; Adrien Peyrache; Gennady Denisov; Joshua H Siegle; Shawn R Olsen; Christopher Martin; Miyoung Chun; Shreejoy Tripathy; Timothy J Blanche; Kenneth Harris; György Buzsáki; Christof Koch; Markus Meister; Karel Svoboda; Friedrich T Sommer

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.025

Neurodata Without Borders: Creating a Common Data Format for Neurophysiology

Neuron. 2015 Nov 18;88(4):629-34. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.025.

Authors

Jeffery L Teeters¹, Keith Godfrey², Rob Young², Chinh Dang², Claudia Friedsam³, Barry Wark³, Hiroki Asari⁴, Simon Peron⁵, Nuo Li⁵, Adrien Peyrache⁶, Gennady Denisov⁵, Joshua H Siegle², Shawn R Olsen², Christopher Martin⁷, Miyoung Chun⁷, Shreejoy Tripathy⁸, Timothy J Blanche¹, Kenneth Harris⁹, György Buzsáki⁶, Christof Koch², Markus Meister⁴, Karel Svoboda⁵, Friedrich T Sommer¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Allen Institute for Brain Science, 615 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
³ Physion LLC, 1 Broadway, 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
⁴ Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
⁵ Janelia Research Campus, 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA.
⁶ School of Medicine, NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University, East River Science Park, 450 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA.
⁷ The Kavli Foundation, 1801 Solar Drive, Suite 250, Oxnard, CA 93030, USA.
⁸ Centre for High-Throughput Biology, University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
⁹ UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK; UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, London WC1E 6DE, UK.
¹⁰ Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: fsommer@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 26590340
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.025

Abstract

The Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) initiative promotes data standardization in neuroscience to increase research reproducibility and opportunities. In the first NWB pilot project, neurophysiologists and software developers produced a common data format for recordings and metadata of cellular electrophysiology and optical imaging experiments. The format specification, application programming interfaces, and sample datasets have been released.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Humans
Information Dissemination / methods*
Information Storage and Retrieval / standards*
Neurophysiology*
Neurosciences
Pilot Projects
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design / standards
Software
Software Design*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding