[Insight-users] Fwd: [1000 Functional Connectomes Project News] Data Release: ‘1000 Functional Connectoms’ Project

[Luis Ibanez]

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Subject: [1000 Functional Connectomes Project News] Data Release:
‘1000 Functional Connectoms’ Project
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A new news bulletin has been posted.  You may read and respond to this
news item at:
http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1321

On behalf of the ‘1000 Functional Connectomes’ Project, we are pleased to
announce the unrestricted public release of 1200+ ‘resting state’ functional
MRI datasets independently collected at 35 sites (
http://www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000/ ).  All datasets have been generously
donated by the principal investigators from the member sites, for the purpose
of providing the broader imaging community complete access to a large-scale
functional imaging dataset. Age, sex and imaging center information are provided
for each of the datasets included in the repository. In accordance with HIPAA
guidelines, all datasets are anonymous, with no protected health information
included. We anticipate this data-sharing effort will equip researchers with
a means of exploring and refining ‘resting state’ functional MRI approaches,
and facilitate the growing ethos of sharing and collaboration among imagers.

Repository Details: The image repository for the ‘1000 Functional Connectomes’
Project is located at: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000/. Functional
imaging datasets are uniformly organized using the NIFTI image format
(orientation:
RPI; TR information set in files). All functional datasets provided by
contributors
have been added to the repository without modification, with the exception of
conversion to NIFTI format and to a uniform orientation. Anatomical images have
undergone face scrambling to protect the identity of participants. Data from
each site in the repository can be downloaded individually to provide maximal
flexibility to users. Age and sex information is provided for all datasets.

Disclaimer:  The ‘1000 Functional Connectomes’ Project datasets are provided
freely without assurance or qualifications, regardless of data quality
or appropriateness for specific uses by repository data recipients.

Data Citation: As the data-release is unrestricted, researchers are free to
publish with any portion of the dataset they choose.  We kindly request that
the project and specific datasets selected for inclusion in analyses be cited
appropriately. An initial publication demonstrating the feasibility of
data-pooling
and data exploration with the aggregate ‘1000 Functional Connectomes’ Project
dataset is currently in submission (title: “Towards Discovery Science of Human
Brain Function”).

Sincerely,


Bharat B. Biswal and Michael P. Milham
 (Co-Founders)

PROJECT ORGANIZATION:
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Data Preparation/Organization: Maarten (“The Belgian Workhorse”) Mennes
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Steering Committee:
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Bharat Biswal (chair)
Randy L. Buckner
James S.  Hyde
Rolf Kotter
Michael P. Milham (coordinating secretary)
Marcus E. Raichle
Arno Villringer
Yu-Feng Zang

Consigliere:  F. Xavier Castellanos
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Contributors:
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Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Christopher S. Monk/Rachael D. Seidler/Scott J. Peltier)
Atlanta, GA, USA (Helen S. Mayberg)
Baltimore, MD, USA (James J. Pekar/Stewart H. Mostofsky)
Bangor, UK (Stan Colcombe)
Beijing, China (Yu-Feng Zang)
Beijing, China (Xu-Chu Weng)
Berlin, Germany (Sein Schmidt)
Berlin, Germany (Daniel Margulies)
Bethesda, MD, USA (Monique Ernst)
Cambridge, MA, USA (Randy L. Buckner)
Cambridge, MA, USA (Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli)
Cleveland, OH, USA (Mark J. Lowe)
Dallas, TX, USA (Bart Rypma)
Durham, NC, USA (Lihong Wang)
Durham, NC, USA (David J. Madden)
Hvidovre, Denmark (Anne-Marie Dogonowski/Kristoffer Madsen)
Leiden, Netherlands (Serge A. R. B. Rombouts)
Leipzig, Germany (Arno Villringer)
London, Ontario, Canada (Peter Williamson)
Magdeburg, Germany (Martin Walter)
Milwaukee, WI, USA (Shi-Jiang Li)
Munchen, Germany (Christian Sorg/Valentin Riedl)
Nanjing, China (Gao-Jun Teng/Hong-Ying Zhang)
New Haven, CT, USA (Michelle Hampson)
New York, NY, USA (Michael P. Milham/F. Xavier Castellanos)
Newark, NJ, USA (Bharat B. Biswal)
Orangeburg, NY, USA (Matthew J. Hoptman)
Oulu, Finland (Vesa J. Kiviniemi/Juha Veijola)
Oxford, UK (Steve M. Smith/Clare Mackay)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Greg Siegle)
Portland, OR, USA (Damien Fair/Bonnie Nagel)
Queensland, Australia (Katie McMahon)
Taipei, Taiwan (Ching-Po Lin)
Saint Louis, MO, USA (Bradley L. Schlaggar/Steven E. Petersen)
Vienna, Austria (Christian Windischberger)

Project Support/Funding:
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Financial support for the ‘1000 Functional Connectomes’ project was provided
by grants to F. Xavier Castellanos and Michael P.Milham from the following:
NIMH (Castellanos: R01MH083246; RO1MH081218), NIDA (Clare Kelly; R03DA024775;
Castellanos: R01DA016979), and Autism Speaks.  Also, grants to Bharat Biswal
from NINDS (R01NS049176) and to Jonathan S. Adelstein from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, as well as gifts to the NYU Child Study Center from
the Stavros
Niarchos Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, Joseph P. Healy, Linda and Richard
Schaps, Jill and Bob Smith, and the endowment provided by Phyllis Green and
Randolph Cōwen. NITRC is funded by the NIH Blueprint for Neurosciences Research
(neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov) Contract No.:N02-EB-6-4281 to TCG, Inc.

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