Specialty · Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Modern neuroscience has the densest data-standards stack of any biomedical field — BIDS for neuroimaging, NWB for systems neuroscience, HED tags for behavioural events, Allen Brain Atlas ontologies. Compute-heavy labs need CRediT statements that properly credit software, data curation, and validation contributions alongside experimental work.
Layered onto general standards
Neuroscience-specific data + reporting standards
BIDS
Brain Imaging Data Structure — community-developed standard for organising and describing neuroimaging datasets.
NWB
Neurodata Without Borders — HDF5-based format for systems-neuroscience data (electrophysiology, optical imaging, behaviour).
HED
Hierarchical Event Descriptors — formal tags for describing experimental events in behavioural / EEG data.
Allen Brain Atlas ontology
Reference ontology for mouse + human brain anatomy; widely used in connectomics.
ARRIVE 2.0
Reporting standard for animal research — mandatory by many neuroscience journals.
STAR Methods
Cell Press structured-methods format; widely adopted for neuroscience papers.
FAIR4RS for analysis pipelines
FAIR for Research Software — important for neuroimaging pipelines (fMRIPrep, etc.).
NIH BRAIN initiative data deposit
Required deposit in DANDI Archive (Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration) for BRAIN-funded work.
