Brainhack: a collaborative workshop for the open neuroscience community

R. Cameron Craddock (1, 2, 3) , Daniel S. Margulies (4, 3) , Pierre Bellec (5, 6, 3) , B. Nolan Nichols (7, 8, 3) , Sarael Alcauter (9) , Fernando A. Barrios (9) , Yves Burnod (10, 11) , Christopher J. Cannistraci (12) , Julien Cohen-Adad (13, 6) , Benjamin de Leener (13) , Sébastien Dery (14) , Jonathan Downar (15, 16) , Katharine Dunlop (15, 16) , Alexandre R. Franco (17, 3) , Caroline Seligman Froehlich (3, 1) , Andrew J. Gerber (18, 19) , Satrajit S. Ghosh (20, 21, 3) , Thomas Grabowski (22) , Sean Hill (23, 24) , Anibal Solon Heinsfeld (17) , R. Matthew Hutchison (25, 3) , Prantik Kundu (3, 12) , Angela R. Laird (26) , Sook-Lei Liew (27, 3) , Daniel J. Lurie (28) , Donald G. Mclaren (29, 30, 3) , Felipe Meneguzzi (17) , Maarten Mennes (31, 3) , Salma Mesmoudi (11, 32) , David O'Connor (2) , Erick H. Pasaye (9) , Scott Peltier (33) , Jean-Baptiste Poline (34, 28) , Gautam Prasad (35) , Ramon Fraga Pereira (17) , Pierre-Olivier Quirion (6) , Ariel Rokem (36) , Ziad S. Saad (37) , Yonggang Shi (35) , Stephen C. Stroher (38, 16) , Roberto Toro (39, 3) , Lucina Q. Uddin (40, 41, 3) , John D. van Horn (27) , John W. van Meter (42) , Robert C. Welsh (33) , Ting Xu (2)

1 NKI - Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
2 Child Mind Institute
3 The Neuro Bureau [Leipzig]
4 IMPNSC - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences [Leipzig]
5 UdeM - Université de Montréal
6 CRIUGM - Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montreal
7 SRI - Silsoe Research Institute
8 Stanford University
9 UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico
10 LIB - Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale [Paris]
11 ISC-PIF - Institut des Systèmes Complexes - Paris Ile-de-France
12 MSSM - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York]
13 EPM - École Polytechnique de Montréal
14 McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
15 University Health Network [Toronto, ON, Canada]
16 University of Toronto
17 PUC-RS - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul [Brasil] = Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul [Brazil] = Université catholique pontificale de Rio Grande do Sul [Brésil]
18 New York State Psychiatric Institute
19 Columbia University [New York]
20 McGovern Institute for Brain Research [Cambridge]
21 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
22 University of Washington [Seattle]
23 International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
24 Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm]
25 Harvard University
26 FIU - Florida International University [Miami]
27 USC - University of Southern California
28 LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley]
29 Biospective [Montréal]
30 Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston]
31 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
32 UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
33 University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]
34 HWNI - The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
35 Keck School of Medicine [Los Angeles]
36 eScience Institute Seattle
37 National Institute of mental health , Bethesda
38 RRI - Rotman Research Institute at the Baycrest Centre
39 GHFC (UMR_3571 / U-Pasteur_1) - Génétique humaine et fonctions cognitives - Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions
40 Miami University
41 UMMSM - University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
42 Georgetown University Medical Center

Brainhack events offer a novel workshop format with participant-generated content that caters to the rapidly growing open neuroscience community. Including components from hackathons and unconferences, as well as parallel educational sessions, Brainhack fosters novel collaborations around the interests of its attendees. Here we provide an overview of its structure, past events, and example projects. Additionally, we outline current innovations such as regional events and post-conference publications. Through introducing Brainhack to the wider neuroscience community, we hope to provide a unique conference format that promotes the features of collaborative, open science.

Mots clés: Open science; Unconference; Hackathon; Data sharing; Collaboration; Neuroscience; Networking

Domaines: Neurosciences [q-bio.NC]

R. Cameron Craddock, Daniel S. Margulies, Pierre Bellec, B. Nolan Nichols, Sarael Alcauter, et al.. Brainhack: a collaborative workshop for the open neuroscience community. GigaScience, 2016, 5, pp.16. ⟨10.1186/s13742-016-0121-x⟩. ⟨hal-01298289⟩