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Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2012 Oct 30;82:683–691. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.064

Table 4.

FCP and INDI ancillary community events to promote open science.

Date Community Event More information
March 2010 Release of the FCP scripts Release of the processing scripts that were used for the analysis presented in Biswal et al. 2010. The scripts were optimized for the data structure of the FCP, but can be easily applied to a user’s specific data (http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org).
March 2011 Launch of the ADHD-200 competition Global Competition launched by the ADHD-200 Consortium to accompany release of the ADHD-200 datasets. The competition required participants to train diagnostic classifiers using the available ADHD-200 datasets. Three months later, in June 2011, new, unlabeled data were released and participants had to use their classifiers to predict the ADHD status of the new datasets. Twenty-one international teams submitted their diagnostic predictions for scoring. Results were announced in October 2011 and the winners were recognized by NIDA at the 2011 annual Society for Neuroscience pre-conference symposium. (http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/adhd200/results.html)
April 2011 Release of the ADHD-200 datasets preprocessed by the NeuroBureau The Neuro Bureau (http://www.neurobureau.org) is a forum and collaborative initiative that supports open neuroscience by promoting the sharing of ideas, data, and methods across disciplines. They preprocessed the complete ADHD-200 dataset and publicly re-released the preprocessed data. That way, users (and participants in the ADHD-200 competition) with restricted computing power are still able to use the data.
May 2011 Launch of the Child Mind Institute Librarian Initiative Comprehensive hand-vetted and sorted reference libraries for various literatures, including Resting State fMRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging are distributed via Mendeley, with monthly updates. (http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/cmi-librarian/)
June 2011 The NeuroBureau Brain Art Exhibition at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Quebec, Canada To expand the horizon of brain scientists, the NeuroBureau, supported by the Child Mind Institute and Stavros Niarchos Foundation, organized an exhibition including art pieces related to the brain and the mind. The exhibition was hosted at the annual meeting of the OHBM in Quebec, Canada, a meeting attended by over 2000 neuroimagers from across the world.
June 2011 The NeuroBureau Brain Art Competition Related to the brain art exhibition, the NeuroBureau invited neuroimagers to submit their most beautiful figures or graphical representations for a ‘Brain Art’ competition. More than 30 neuroimagers participated in the competition. The Brain Art competition, and the Cirque Du Cerveau Gala and award ceremony were supported by the Child Mind Institute and Stavros Niarchos Foundation. (http://neurobureau.projects.nitrc.org/BrainArt/Competition.html; http://neurobureau.projects.nitrc.org/BrainArt/Awards_Venue.html)
June 2012 2nd NeuroBureau Brain Art Exhibition at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Beijing, China Following the successful 2011 Brain Art Exhibition, the Neurobureau, again supported by the Child Mind Institute and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, organized the second edition of the Brain Art Exhibition at the 2012 annual meeting of the OHBM in Beijing, China,
June 2012 2nd NeuroBureau Brain Art Competition In the second edition of the Brain Art competition, over 30 neuroimagers participated in the categories: best abstract, best human connectome, best educational, most humorous, and best video representation of the brain. The Brain Art competition was supported by the Child Mind Institute and Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
July-August 2012 Launch of the INDI Summer of Sharing The 2012 INDI Summer of Sharing is an effort dedicated to the sustenance and acceleration of data and analytic resource sharing among imaging community members. It bundles a series of efforts including data releases, processing pipeline releases, as well as a links to other sharing initiatives (http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/summerofsharing2012.html).
August 2012 Release of the C-PAC processing pipeline The Configurable Pipeline for the Analysis of Connectomes (C-PAC) is a configurable plug-and-play Nipype-based pipeline package developed by the INDI team to accomplish a broad array of resting-state fMRI analyses.
September 2012 BrainHack Unconference The 2012 BrainHack Unconference was organized by the NeuroBureau and is aimed at seeding open, collaborative projects in neuroimaging (http://www.brainhack.org). The unconference took the form of a 3-day hackaton and was centered on data from the FCP and INDI. Over 50 international neuroimagers participated.