BIDScoin: A User-Friendly Application to Convert Source Data to Brain Imaging Data Structure
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2022Author
Zwiers, Marcel Peter
Moia, Stefano
Oostenveld, Robert
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Zwiers MP, Moia S and Oostenveld R (2022) BIDScoin: A User-Friendly Application to Convert Source Data to Brain Imaging Data Structure. Front. Neuroinform. 15:770608. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2021.770608
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Abstract
Analyses of brain function and anatomy using shared neuroimaging data is an important
development, and have acquired the potential to be scaled up with the specification of
a new Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard. To date, a variety of software tools
help researchers in converting their source data to BIDS but often require programming
skills or are tailored to specific institutes, data sets, or data formats. In this paper, we
introduce BIDScoin, a cross-platform, flexible, and user-friendly converter that provides
a graphical user interface (GUI) to help users finding their way in BIDS standard.
BIDScoin does not require programming skills to be set up and used and supports
plugins to extend their functionality. In this paper, we show its design and demonstrate
how it can be applied to a downloadable tutorial data set. BIDScoin is distributed as
free and open-source software to foster the community-driven effort to promote and
facilitate the use of BIDS standard.