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Frontiers Media, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, (15), 2022

DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2021.770608

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BIDScoin: A User-Friendly Application to Convert Source Data to Brain Imaging Data Structure

Journal article published in 2022 by Marcel Peter Zwiers, Stefano Moia, Robert Oostenveld
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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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.