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Table 1 Sample of National Projects that Spurred on the Big Data Revolution (see additional information in Additional file 1: Table S1)

From: The evolution of Big Data in neuroscience and neurology

Name of project

Where

Year

Population

Data type

Link

Sample References

ADNI

US

2004

Human

Neuroimaging, genetic, clinical, and biospecimen data

https://adni.loni.usc.edu

[228]

EPFL Blue Brain Project

CH

2005

Animal (mouse)

Models, tools, algorithms, brain cell atlas

https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/bluebrain/

[229]

Human Brain Connectome Project

US

2009

Human

Neuroimaging, phenomic, and genomic data

https://www.humanconnectome.orghttp://www.humanconnectomeproject.org

[230, 231, 232]

ENIGMA

US

2009

Human

Neuroimaging, genetic, and clinical

https://enigma.ini.usc.edu

[37]

Brain Canada Foundation

CA

2011

Human

Neuroimaging and disease models

https://braincanada.ca

[233]

The BRAIN Initiative

US

2013

Human, animal

Neuroimaging, genetic, clinical, neurophysiological, simulations

https://braininitiative.nih.gov/

[234]

Human Brain Project

EU, IL, NO, UK, CH

2013

Human

Neuroimaging, genetic, clinical, neurophysiological, simulations

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/

[51, 52]

Japan Brain/MINDS

JP

2014

Human, animal (marmoset)

Neuroimaging, neurophysiological, genetic, and clinical data

https://brainminds.jp/en/

[53]

China Brain Project

CN

2016

Human, animal

Not available

Not available

[235]

Korea Brain Initiative

KR

2016

Human, animal

Cell imaging, molecular, mini-brain cultures, AI technology, mapping

https://www.kbri.re.kr/new/pages_eng/main/

[236]

Australian Brain Alliance

AU

2016

Human

Not available

https://www.ans.org.au/resources/issues/about-the-australian-brain-alliance

[237]

CBRS

CA

2017

Human

Not available

https://canadianbrain.ca/

[238]

IBI International Brain Initiative

JP, AU, EU, US, CA, KR, CN

2017

Human, animal

Diverse data sets represented across international collaborators

https://www.internationalbraininitiative.org/

[239]

The BRAIN Initiative 2.0

US

2018

Human, animal

Neuroimaging, genetic, clinical, neurophysiological, simulations

https://braininitiative.nih.gov/strategic-planning/acd-working-groups/brain-initiative®-20-cells-circuits-toward-cures

[240]

EBRAINS

EU

2020

Human, animal

Study data, computational models, and software

https://ebrains.eu/

[241]

  1. CH Switzerland , IL Israel, NO Norway, UK United Kingdom, KR South Korea, CA Canada, AU Australia, CN China, JP Japan