Neuroscout: a cloud-based platform for flexible re-analysis of naturalistic fMRI datasets

[Remi-Gau]

Alejandro de la Vega, Tal Yarkoni + more!

Although there are many openly available datasets, they are infrequently reused and only a small subset of all possible research hypotheses are ever tested. Turns out fMRI is hard! Neuroscout aims to provide a rapid and flexible platform for fMRI analysis, allowing researchers to go from hypothesis to shareable results in a matter of hours, not months.

Specific goals which are in progress:

• A flexible BIDS-y nipype workflow that can be fully specified without editing the workflow via JSON configuration files
• Command line interface to download data and software requirements and execute the workflows in the cloud or on local machines (thanks to DataLad and NeuroDebian!)
• Web front-end for Neuroscout.