BICAN Data

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Types of Data Releases

BICAN Rapid Release

Our "BICAN Rapid Release" collections provide access to raw data shortly after creation. These releases:

• Contain data that has passed initial quality control by investigators
• Are made available rapidly to accelerate scientific discovery
• Include detailed experimental protocols
• Come with comprehensive metadata following BICAN FAIR standards
• Feature README files explaining dataset contents and QC information

Metadata Release

Metadata and detailed provenance tracking are available from our metadata management system, the Neuroanatomy-anchored Information Management Platform for Collaborative BICAN Data Generation (NIMP, RRID:SCR_024684; The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston).

Using BICAN Data

How to Cite

When using BICAN datasets in your research, presentations, or applications, please cite both BICAN and the specific production laboratories. Each dataset includes citation information in its README file and metadata.

Example citation for NeMO data:

In this study, we used raw sequence data produced as part of the National Institutes of Health's Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (NIH BRAIN) Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN; RRID:SCR_022794, brain-bican.org) by Velmeshev and Kriegstein (2021) accessed through the Neuroscience Multi-omics Archive (NeMO; RRID:SCR_016152, https://nemoarchive.org/) under accession number: nemo:dat-b3brzfa. Data may be accessed at: https://assets.nemoarchive.org/dat-b3brzfa.

Example citation for Data Catalog:

Raw sequence data were produced as part of the National Institutes of Health's Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (NIH BRAIN) Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN; RRID:SCR_022794, brain-bican.org) and accessed through the Brain Cell Data Center (RRID:SCR_017266; https://knowledge.brain-map.org/data).

Pre-Publication Use

While not required, we encourage researchers using pre-publication BICAN data to contact the data producers to discuss possible collaborations or coordinated publications.

Finding Data

BICAN data can be searched through the BICAN Data Catalog and through the data archives below.

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