Tools and services documentation

Version 51.1 by graber on 2023/04/18 11:31

Welcome to the single entry point to user-level documentation for EBRAINS tools and services. Here, you can find a list of EBRAINS offerings, sorted by topic, and their documentation links.

Collaboratory

Collaboratory
Workspaces in the Cloud for your research, development, documentation, and collaboration.

Find data

EBRAINS Knowledge Graph
A user-driven, data-sharing and data-management infrastructure accelerating scientific progress by providing access to large collections of curated, heterogeneous neuroscience data.
KnowledgeSpace
Encyclopedia and open data access portal for neuroscience that serves as a framework where large-scale neuroscience projects can expose their data to the neuroscience community-at-large.
fairgraph
Python API for the Human Brain Project Neural Activity Resource, capable of changing, and working with Metadata
 

Share data

Data curation
The place to share your neuroscience data on the EBRAINS platform.
Data publishing
The place to submit your dataset for publication along with a manuscript for a peer-reviewed journal.

Brain atlases

PyJuGEx
Find a set of differentially expressed genes between two user defined volumes of interest based on JuBrain maps.
Julich-Brain Gene Expression
Decoding the chain from genes to cognition requires detailed insights how areas with specific gene activities and microanatomical architectures contribute to brain function and dysfunction.
QuickNII
QuickNII is a tool for user guided affine registration (anchoring) of 2D experimental image data, typically high resolution microscopic images, to 3D atlas reference space, facilitating data integration through standardized coordinate systems.
 
siibra-explorer
siibra-explorer is a browser-based viewer for the visual exploration of the EBRAINS atlases at microscopic detail, as well as the discovery of related multimodal data features. It is tightly integrated with the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph, allowing the seamless querying of semantically and spatially anchored datasets.
siibra-python
siibra-python is a comprehensive Python client providing access to EBRAINS atlases and offering an easy and well-structured way to include maps, reference templates, region definitions and linked datasets in reproducible programmatic workflows.
VoluBA
VoluBA (Volumetric Brain Anchoring) is an online service for anchoring of high-resolution volumes of interest from imaging experiments to very large reference volumes.
 

Data analysis

Elephant
Elephant is an open-source Python library for the analysis of neurophysiology data, using Neo data structures.
HBP Validation Framework - Python Client
A Python package for working with the Human Brain Project Model Validation Framework.
Neo
an object model for handling electrophysiology data in multiple formats.
 
Neo Viewer
Django/Angular software for graphing neural activity data (analog signals, spike trains etc.) read from Neo files.
NeuroScheme
NeuroScheme is a tool for navigating, exploring, creating and interacting with NeuroScience data using abstract, schematic or expressive representations.
NeuroTessMesh
A Tool for the Generation and Visualization of Neuron Meshes and Adaptive On-the-Fly Refinement
 
Nutil
Nutil aims to both simplify and streamline the mechanism of pre-and-post processing 2D brain image data from mouse and rat.
ViSimpl
ViSimpl integrates a set of visualization and interaction tools that provide a multi-view visual analysis of brain simultation data.
ilastik
ilastik is a simple, user-friendly tool for interactive image classification, segmentation and analysis.
 

Simulation

Arbor
Arbor is a library for implementing performance portable network simulations of multi-compartment neuron models.
BluePyMM
Model Management Python Library
BluePyOpt
BluePyOpt is an extensible framework for data-driven model parameter optimisation that wraps and standardizes several existing open-source tools.
 
CoreNeuron
CoreNeuron implements the core functionalities of the NEURON simulator targeting high efficiency when using millions of threads.
Hodgkin Huxley Neuron Builder
The Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron Builder web-application is a use case that allows the user to interactively go through the entire single cell model building pipeline.
Multi-scale brain simulation with TVB-NEST
Simulate multi-scale brain network models with TVB and NEST.
 
NEST
NEST is a simulator for spiking neural network models that focuses on the dynamics, size and structure of neural systems rather than on the exact morphology of individual neurons
NEST Desktop
A web-based GUI application for NEST simulator.
NESTML
A domain specific language to describe neuron models in NEST.
 
NEURON
Simulation enviroment for building and using computational models of neurons and networks of neurons
NeuroM
NeuroM is a Python toolkit for the analysis and processing of neuron morphologies.
PyNN
A Python package for simulator-independent specification of neuronal network models.
 
TVB image processing pipeline
This pipeline combines the BIDS Apps mrtrix3_connectome, fmriprep and tvb_converter into a neuroimaging pipeline to compute structural and functional connectomes from MRI data.
TVB-HPC
This is a Python package for generating code for parameter sweeps and Bayesian inversion.
The Virtual Brain
"The Virtual Brain" Project (TVB Project) has the purpose of offering modern tools to the Neurosciences community, for computing, simulating and analyzing functional and structural data of human brains, brains modeled at the level of population of neurons.
 
The Virtual Brain Web-App
The Virtual Brain Web App at HBP.
NeuroR
NeuroR is a collection of tools to repair morphologies.
Local Field Potentials in Python
LFPy is a Python module for the calculation of extracellular potentials and magnetic signals from activity in multicompartment neuron and network models.
 
Snudda
Snudda is a tool that allows the user to place neurons within multiple volumes, then performs touch detection to infer where putative synapses are based on reconstructed neuron morphologies.

Neurorobotics

Neurorobotics Platform
The NRP supports closed-loop neuroscience and embodied AI by connecting brains and bodies in simulation.

Medical data analytics

Bids Manager & Pipeline
Bids Manager is a tool that allows various users to easily import and explore databases in BIDS format. Bids Pipeline, an extension of Bids Manager, allows to launch process on BIDS database.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm is a collaborative, open-source application dedicated to the analysis of brain recordings:
MEG, EEG, fNIRS, ECoG, depth electrodes and multiunit electrophysiology.
HiBoP
3D visualization software for intracranial EEG.
 
ImaGIN
SPM-based Matlab toolbox for processing intracranial EEG recordings (SEEG and ECOG).
IntranAt Electrodes
A software to visualize electrodes implantation on image data and prepare database for group studies.
Brain-cockpitWeb-based application to explore large fMRI datasets and inter-subject alignments.

Neuromorphic computing

BrainScaleS
Neural network emulation in 1000x accelerated biological real-time.
Neuromorphic Platform Python client
Client software for the Human Brain Project Neuromorphic Computing Platform.
SpiNNaker Jupyter Service
Jupyter notebook service running next to the SpiNNaker 1Million machine in Manchester.
 
SpiNNaker Local Boards
Physical SpiNNaker boards that are loaned to or owned by individuals or groups, but not connected to the SpiNNaker 1Million machine in Manchester.
SpiNNaker Machine
The SpiNNaker 1Million core machine in Manchester consisting of 1200 SpiNNaker boards.
SpiNNaker Remote Access
The SpiNNaker batch execution service allowing Neuromorphic Computing Platform jobs to be run on the SpiNNaker 1Million machine in Manchester.
 
SpiNNaker Software
The Software used to compile and execute Neural Networks described in PyNN on SpiNNaker hardware.
SpiNNaker-NRP integration
Allows the NRP to use SpiNNaker as a brain for robotic simulations.

High-performance computing

Fenix
Delivering e-infrastructure services federated as the Fenix Infrastructure.
SLURM plugin for the co-allocation of compute and data resources
A plugin for SLURM used for the co-allocation of compute and data resources.
Unicore
A set of software components for federated access to high-performance compute and data resources.
 

Support

Contact the EBRAINS High Level Support Team (HLST) if you have questions about our tools, services and workflows.