The EBRAINS Data and Knowledge Services increase the efficiency and productivity in research by making data discoverable and reusable.

The ability for scientists to easily share, find, integrate, analyse and simulate data is a central factor in accelerating the global effort to understand how the human brain functions. The vast amount of neuroscientific data, its multimodal and heterogenous nature in addition to the fragmentation in research efforts across nations and disciplines pose a challenge towards creating the necessary synergies for scientific findings to translate into real progress.

A major goal of the HBP is to contribute to understanding the human brain in health and disease through experiments, theoretical modelling and data-driven simulations, which “cross-talk” to each other. The EBRAINS Data and Knowledge services have been developed in the Human Brain Project (HBP) and are openly available to everyone through the EBRAINS infrastructure. 

Image depicts the graph structure of the active and continuously developing content of the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph (derived from https://kg.ebrains.eu/statistics/)

Advancing Open Science

Our services provide access to and storage of high-quality neuroscientific data, facilitating data discovery and  re-use in the scientific community by providing an online conduit for both sharing and easy access to research data, computational models, and software. These services revolve around an expert-driven Knowledge Graph which combines metadata ingestion pipelines, human user input, and multiple quality assurance processes to ensure consistency and quality to aid researchers who wish to contribute.

Neuroscientists looking to make their data, models, and software FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) can apply for user support for curation and annotation with standardised metadata facilitating discovery and reuse by the broader research community.

Clearly defined Terms of use, responsible data compliance, protection, and governance make the EBRAINS Data and Knowledge Services mutually attractive for researchers both depositing and consuming content. These shared resources are linked to software for visualising and analysing data and for performing computerised simulations of brain function.