What is the Brain Commons?

Community + Data + Tools

We are entering a new era in brain research, driven by powerful data acquisition technologies generating multi-modal data at all spatial scales, coupled with a dramatic evolution in the cost of computing.  To meet the challenges associated with brain health research, a paradigm shift is required that adapts our existing data analysis toolsets and data management processes to integrate massively multi-dimensional data to facilitate holistic modeling of the brain and its organization.

The BRAIN Commons represents a next-generation digital ecosystem that is uniquely able to meet today’s data analysis challenges facing brain researchers.

In order to maintain brain health, we must gain a profoundly deeper understanding of the brain’s trajectory through its lifespan, including the perturbations that represent disorder, disease and dysfunction as well as resiliency. The BRAIN Commons’ innovative integration of Data, Tools and Community will make this possible.

The BRAIN Commons is unique: 

  • It can exploit the massive multi-dimensional data being generated in a safe and compliant way
  • Data across studies are integrate-able and query-able using a universal graph data model of the brain
  • It is architected with flexibility so that it can evolve and scale with the data
  • It supports compute in the cloud and high-speed computational modeling
  • It promotes team science, where researchers can collaborate within and across communities, and share data, analytical tools, and insights!
Brain Health Researchers
Move your analysis and data visualization to the Commons and find fruitful collaborations based on productive friction with both known and new colleagues.
Data Scientists
Adopt a scalable, flexible platform to host, analyze and explore research related to brain health.
Policy Makers
Understand the state of the science in brain health research with informative data visualization.
Patients/Caregivers
Stay up-to-date on the state of the science in brain health research that is pertinent to you and your loved ones.
Developers
Create analytic and visualization applications using the BRAIN Commons Builders Studio or your favorite developer tools that will move forward brain health research.
Modelers
Create holistic, systems models of the brain using high-performance AI tools.

The BRAIN Commons is an enabling digital ecosystem designed to fuel discovery in an interconnected research community and that promotes multidisciplinary team science, data sharing, analytics and collaboration.

This will ultimately lead to novel discoveries that drive diagnostic and therapeutic innovation to reduce the burden of brain-related disorders and promote brain health.

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