A Computational Platform for Building Databases for Neuroscience Experiments
Abstract
Open scientific data is fundamental to support better quality and higher impact reproducible science. The creation of open scientific databases involves a number of challenges, such as the creation of standardized representations of data and metadata from different domains of knowledge, as well as the development of computational resources to assist scientists in collecting and maintaining high-quality data. This paper presents a free software computational platform for the management and sharing of data from Neuroscience experiments. This platform allows to register data and metadata of experiments in a safe and user-friendly way, integrating data records of different types, such as clinical, electrophysiological and behavioral.
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