Neuroinformatics

Due to large data sizes, it is typically not feasible to use our 3D models, brain atlases, and data features offline on a conventional computer. Instead, cloud technologies for remote visualization, annotation, and chunkwise access to image data are required. To this end, we develop and maintain software libraries and web services for working with neuroscience data and brain atlases over the web. As part of the EBRAINS consortium, we provide technical consultations to the wider neuroscience community for the adoption of suitable open standards for data, as well as metadata.

​Siibra – Interacting with brain atlases

siibra is a software tool suite implementing an openly accessible brain atlas framework which connects multimodal datasets from different resources to anatomical structures in reference spaces at different spatial scales. The tool suite is designed to address both interactive exploration through an interactive 3D web viewer (siibra-explorer) as well as integration into data analysis and simulation workflows with a comprehensive Python library (siibra-python).

Publications

Dickscheid, Timo, Xiaoyun Gui, Ahmet Nihat Simsek, et al. 2025. ‘Siibra: A Software Tool Suite for Realizing a Multilevel Human Brain Atlas from Complex Data Resources’. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.20.655042.