Paper Info
Title
WeBrain: A web-based brainformatics platform of computational ecosystem for EEG big data analysis
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118713
NeuroImage
Keywords
DocType
Volume
WeBrain,Brainformatics,EEG big data,Distributed cloud computing,Computational ecosystem
Journal
245
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1053-8119
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Dong1164.09
Jianfu Li262.83
Qiunan Zou300.34
Yufan Zhang413.38
Lingling Zhao500.34
Xin Wen600.34
Jinnan Gong741.42
Fali Li8348.53
Tiejun Liu962.68
Alan C. Evans103045574.95
Pedro A. Valdes-sosa1142735.18
Dezhong Yao1235763.41