Sharing software and tools for large-scale neuroimaging analyses

The Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC – http://www.nitrc.org) suite of services include a resources registry, image repository and a robust cloud computational environment to meet the needs of the neuroimaging researcher. NITRC provides image-sharing functionality through both the NITRC Resource Registry (NITRC-R), where bulk data files can be released through the file release system (FRS), and the NITRC Image Repository (NITRC-IR), a XNAT-based image data management system. Currently hosting more than 14 projects, 6845 subjects, and 8285 MRI imaging sessions, NITRC-IR provides a large array of structural, diffusion and resting state MRI data. Designed to be flexible about management of data access policy, NITRC provides a simple, free, NIH-funded service to support resource sharing in general, and image sharing in particular. In my talk, I will review these resources and illustrate examples of their use as valuable tools for large-scale brain imaging analysis and inference.