Neuroinformatics Platform for Data Sharing and Global Collaboration in the Brain/MINDS Project
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RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Neuroinformatics Japan Center, Japan
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RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Image Processing Research Team, Japan
RIKEN, as a core institute of the 10-year (2014-2023) Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS) project, has started constructing heterogeneous databases of the common marmoset non-human primate. The objective of this project involves gaining knowledge and insight into the diseases and functionalities of the common marmoset brain, including its ability for social communication, and their relevance to the human brain. The first goal is to construct structural and functional brain mapping across micro-, meso- and macroscopic levels by integrating heterogeneous big data of marmoset neural circuitry.
To share this big data among research collaborators, we constructed an integrated neuroinformatics platform, SAKI, composed of GPFS 1.28PB storage and a VDI cloud and HPC for computational data analysis. We also developed the Biological Image Communication Cloud (BiCC) platform, which was based on the Image Communication Platform (IC) of Morita and Yokota (2014) and is now installed on SAKI. BiCC enables high performance registration, analysis and visualization of 3D/4D data. Currently, semi-automatic data registration and a 3D brain reference atlas of the common marmoset are available on SAKI.
This neuroinformatics platform is designed to provide for data sharing and collaboration amongst people in the neuroscience, medical and engineering fields. By presenting SAKI, we would like to propose and discuss how to develop a state-of-the-art neuroinformatics infrastructure.
Acknowledgements
This work was carried out under the Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS) project, funded by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED).
References
Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS)
http://brainminds.jp
INCF Japan Node (J-Node)
http://www.neuroinf.jp
Neuroinformatics Japan Center (NIJC), RIKEN BSI
https://nijc.brain.riken.jp
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
http://www.amed.go.jp
Keywords:
collaboration,
database,
portal,
Atlas,
Registration
Conference:
Neuroinformatics 2015, Cairns, Australia, 20 Aug - 22 Aug, 2015.
Presentation Type:
Demo, not to be considered for oral presentation
Topic:
Infrastructural and portal services
Citation:
Morii
Y,
Okumura
Y,
Maeda
M,
Woodward
A,
Morita
M,
Yokota
H and
Yamaguchi
Y
(2015). Neuroinformatics Platform for Data Sharing and Global Collaboration in the Brain/MINDS Project.
Front. Neurosci.
Conference Abstract:
Neuroinformatics 2015.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2015.91.00057
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Received:
07 Apr 2015;
Published Online:
05 Aug 2015.
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Correspondence:
Ms. Yoko Morii, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Neuroinformatics Japan Center, Wako, Japan, 414461@frontiersin.org
Dr. Yoko Yamaguchi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Neuroinformatics Japan Center, Wako, Japan, yokoy@brain.riken.jp