The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Research Unit of NeuroInformation, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu 2019RU035, China; Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Chengdu 611731, China.
The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Neuroimage. 2021 Dec 15;245:118713. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118713. Epub 2021 Nov 17.
The current evolution of 'cloud neuroscience' leads to more efforts with the large-scale EEG applications, by using EEG pipelines to handle the rapidly accumulating EEG data. However, there are a few specific cloud platforms that seek to address the cloud computational challenges of EEG big data analysis to benefit the EEG community. In response to the challenges, a WeBrain cloud platform (https://webrain.uestc.edu.cn/) is designed as a web-based brainformatics platform and computational ecosystem to enable large-scale EEG data storage, exploration and analysis using cloud high-performance computing (HPC) facilities. WeBrain connects researchers from different fields to EEG and multimodal tools that have become the norm in the field and the cloud processing power required to handle those large EEG datasets. This platform provides an easy-to-use system for novice users (even no computer programming skills) and provides satisfactory maintainability, sustainability and flexibility for IT administrators and tool developers. A range of resources are also available on https://webrain.uestc.edu.cn/, including documents, manuals, example datasets related to WeBrain, and collected links to open EEG datasets and tools. It is not necessary for users or administrators to install any software or system, and all that is needed is a modern web browser, which reduces the technical expertise required to use or manage WeBrain. The WeBrain platform is sponsored and driven by the China-Canada-Cuba international brain cooperation project (CCC-Axis, http://ccc-axis.org/), and we hope that WeBrain will be a promising cloud brainformatics platform for exploring brain information in large-scale EEG applications in the EEG community.
当前，“云神经科学”的发展趋势是更多地应用于大规模 EEG 应用，利用 EEG 管道来处理快速积累的 EEG 数据。然而，有几个特定的云平台试图解决 EEG 大数据分析的云计算挑战，以造福 EEG 社区。针对这些挑战，设计了一个 WeBrain 云平台（https://webrain.uestc.edu.cn/），作为一个基于网络的脑信息学平台和计算生态系统，利用云高性能计算（HPC）设施实现大规模 EEG 数据存储、探索和分析。WeBrain 将来自不同领域的研究人员与 EEG 和多模态工具联系起来，这些工具已经成为该领域的标准，并且需要云处理能力来处理这些大型 EEG 数据集。该平台为新手用户（甚至没有计算机编程技能）提供了一个易于使用的系统，并为 IT 管理员和工具开发人员提供了令人满意的可维护性、可持续性和灵活性。在 https://webrain.uestc.edu.cn/上还提供了一系列资源，包括文档、手册、与 WeBrain 相关的示例数据集，以及收集的开放 EEG 数据集和工具链接。用户或管理员无需安装任何软件或系统，只需要一个现代网络浏览器，这降低了使用或管理 WeBrain 的技术要求。WeBrain 平台由中国-加拿大-古巴国际脑合作项目（CCC-Axis，http://ccc-axis.org/）赞助和推动，我们希望 WeBrain 将成为 EEG 社区中探索大规模 EEG 应用中脑信息的有前途的云脑信息学平台。
