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The BRAIN Initiative data-sharing ecosystem: Characteristics, challenges, benefits, and opportunities.
Sudhanvan Iyer1, Kathryn Maxson Jones1,2, Jill O Robinson1
1Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States.
Elife
|November 27, 2024
Summary
The BRAIN Initiative
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Data Science
- Bioinformatics
Background:
- The BRAIN Initiative aims to advance neuroscience research through data sharing.
- A distributed ecosystem of data archives supports this initiative.
- Understanding this ecosystem is crucial for effective data reuse.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the BRAIN Initiative's data-sharing ecosystem.
- To compare characteristics of seven key data archives.
- To identify challenges and opportunities in neuroscience data sharing.
Main Methods:
- Comparative analysis of data archive characteristics.
- Qualitative analysis of 34 stakeholder interviews.
- Focus on human data sharing challenges and benefits.
Main Results:
- The BRAIN Initiative data archives face interoperability and data stewardship challenges.
- Harmonizing informed consent for human data access is complex.
- Specialized archives offer adaptability to research community needs.
Conclusions:
- The distributed BRAIN Initiative data archive ecosystem presents both challenges and opportunities.
- Analysis supports policy development for improved neuroscience data findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR principles).
- Future network evolution can adapt to neuroscientists' evolving needs.
