BIDS-animal-ephys : A standardization proposal for electrophysiological data recorded in animal models
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In neuroscience, the standardization of the organization of data and associated metadata is one of the keys to attaining data FAIR-ness. Electrophysiological recordings obtained in animal models suffer from the lack of such standardization, due in large part to the vast diversity of vendor-specific data formats.
Other neuroscience data modalities have managed to overcome this obstacle. The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), initially developed for human MRI data, now has a high adoption rate and has been extended to support other modalities, such as EEG and MEG. Despite the widespread notion of project-specific organization schemas in neurophysiology, we believe that most of the principles used in BIDS could improve the organization and shareability of the datasets. Therefore, we here introduce a BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP032) that aims to incorporate animal electrophysiology into the list of BIDS-supported data modalities.
This proposal is based on i) extending the naming conventions used in BIDS for this new data type, ii) introducing a list of standardized metadata with an associated nomenclature, and iii) exploiting two INCF-endorsed standards, NIX and NWB, as data formats. At this point, we are looking for feedback from the community to make our proposal evolve and attain the largest possible consensus amongst electrophysiologists. For this, we are seeking feedback in the form of comments on the public BEP document: http://bit.ly/BIDS-animal-ephys.
Other neuroscience data modalities have managed to overcome this obstacle. The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), initially developed for human MRI data, now has a high adoption rate and has been extended to support other modalities, such as EEG and MEG. Despite the widespread notion of project-specific organization schemas in neurophysiology, we believe that most of the principles used in BIDS could improve the organization and shareability of the datasets. Therefore, we here introduce a BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP032) that aims to incorporate animal electrophysiology into the list of BIDS-supported data modalities.
This proposal is based on i) extending the naming conventions used in BIDS for this new data type, ii) introducing a list of standardized metadata with an associated nomenclature, and iii) exploiting two INCF-endorsed standards, NIX and NWB, as data formats. At this point, we are looking for feedback from the community to make our proposal evolve and attain the largest possible consensus amongst electrophysiologists. For this, we are seeking feedback in the form of comments on the public BEP document: http://bit.ly/BIDS-animal-ephys.