Paper of the Month
JANUARY 2022 - Brain simulation as a cloud service: The Virtual Brain on EBRAINS.
In January 2022, Petra Ritter received the Paper of the Month award.
Publication
Brain simulation as a cloud service: The Virtual Brain on EBRAINS, NeuroImageVolume 251, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118973
Abstract
The Virtual Brain (TVB) is now available as open-source services on the cloud research platform EBRAINS (ebrains.eu). It offers software for constructing, simulating and analysing brain network models including the TVB simulator; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) processing pipelines to extract structural and functional brain networks; combined simulation of large-scale brain networks with small-scale spiking networks; automatic conversion of user-specified model equations into fast simulation code; simulation-ready brain models of patients and healthy volunteers; Bayesian parameter optimization in epilepsy patient models; data and software for mouse brain simulation; and extensive educational material. TVB cloud services facilitate reproducible online collaboration and discovery of data assets, models, and software embedded in scalable and secure workflows, a precondition for research on large cohort data sets, better generalizability, and clinical translation.