Easy Access to HPC and Cloud Computing Resources
Makes Complex Pipelines Easily Accessible
Analyze and View Large Datasets Online
Simplified Data Management and Transfers
Automated Workflows and Provenance Tracking
Simplified Collaboration and Teamwork
CBRAIN offers an easy-to-use web interface for researchers to access HPC and Cloud Computing resources, providing them with simplified but powerful access to advanced computational resources for scientific research.
Resources are provided through partnership with an internationally distributed network of service providers, including the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, the San Diego Supercomputing Center, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and others, offering streamlined access to computing and data capacity for the research community.
CBRAIN offers a structured environment for software integration that simplifies the sharing of complex analytical pipelines that facilitate collaboration and research reproducibility. CBRAIN tool integrations use the Boutiques Descriptive Framework to facilitate the automatic creation of a standardized GUI that provides access to different pipeline options. This simplifies the experience of new users who are using the research tools, allowing them to focus on the science.
CBRAIN provides a simple to use web interface for users to manage and work with large datasets. CBRAIN improves productivity by facilitating online viewing of both pre-processed and post-processed data, enabling research teams to perform remote quality assurance in the browser, without reliance on locally installed software. BrainBrowser supports visualization features in CBRAIN, directly in the browser. Within CBRAIN, users are able to access large data repositories such as the UK Biobank, the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) and OpenNeuro.
CBRAIN has a multitude of computational pipelines that allow researchers to perform complex big data analytics. The suite of available pipelines cover the full spectrum of neuroinformatics needs covering structural MRI, functional MRI preprocessing and analysis, tractography, PET, EEG, arterial spin labeling, as well as genetics including single-cell transcriptomics.
Through the CBRAIN web interface, users select the data to analyze, the processing pipeline to analyze it with and the parameters to be applied, launching the processing tasks across the connected set of resources with a “single click", increasing computational speeds and reducing the time to achieve results. CBRAIN automatically maintains detailed log files, making provenance tracking and quality control easier, and ensuring reproducibility. CBRAIN is a completely general platform that could be used in other research area settings.
CBRAIN allows researchers to easily collaborate and build team projects, with fully customizable controls to secure access to projects, data and tools. By removing the burden of local software installation, CBRAIN improves user experience through a customizable GUI and reduces the risks to reproducibility associated with human error. Team members can remotely verify all stages of data processing and the results, making collaboration and training more efficient.
