TY - JOUR T1 - The Brain Imaging Data Structure, a new format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/034561 SP - 034561 AU - Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski AU - Tibor Auer AU - Vince D. Calhoun AU - R. Cameron Craddock AU - Samir Das AU - Eugene P. Duff AU - Guillaume Flandin AU - Satrajit S. Ghosh AU - Tristan Glatard AU - Yaroslav O. Halchenko AU - Daniel A. Handwerker AU - Michael Hanke AU - David Keator AU - Xiangrui Li AU - Zachary Michael AU - Camille Maumet AU - B. Nolan Nichols AU - Thomas E. Nichols AU - John Pellman AU - Jean-Baptiste Poline AU - Ariel Rokem AU - Gunnar Schaefer AU - Vanessa Sochat AU - William Triplett AU - Jessica A. Turner AU - Gaƫl Varoquaux AU - Russell A. Poldrack Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/12/034561.abstract N2 - The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques has defined modern neuroimaging. Since its inception, tens of thousands of studies using techniques such as functional MRI and diffusion weighted imaging have allowed for the non-invasive study of the brain. Despite the fact that MRI is routinely used to obtain data for neuroscience research, there has been no widely adopted standard for organizing and describing the data collected in an imaging experiment. This renders sharing and reusing data (within or between labs) difficult if not impossible and unnecessarily complicates the application of automatic pipelines and quality assurance protocols. To solve this problem, we have developed the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), a standard for organizing and describing MRI datasets. The BIDS standard uses file formats compatible with existing software, unifies the majority of practices already common in the field, and captures the metadata necessary for most common data processing operations. ER -