[BIC-announce] New release of the Open MEG Archive (OMEGA)

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

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Dear All:

Very glad to announce the 3rd release of the Open MEG Archive (OMEGA), now augmented (300+ data volumes) and organized according to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS). BIDS is emerging as a practical standard for data organization and dissemination that we have recently extended to MEG, with ongoing efforts towards the integration of multimodal electrophysiology data (https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018110)

Since its first release in 2016, OMEGA has grown a community of >600 registered users, with 22 published journal articles in less than 2 years.

Importantly, and thanks to BIDS, OMEGA can now readily be imported into major analytical (and free, open-source) software solutions, such as our own Brainstorm (https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm ), but also SPM, FieldTrip, MNE-Python, etc (see attached)

For free access via the box.BIC (thanks to Ted Strauss): https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/resources/omega

On behalf of the MEG at McGill team (with special kudos to Beth Bock),

Enjoy!

Sylvain
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Sylvain Baillet, PhD
Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
> more<https://goo.gl/591JdQ>

OMEGA is:
• First open data repository fully dedicated to MEG
• Now stored as BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure)
• Directly readable by data-analysis software with Brainstorm
• Multimodal data from 220 participants, about 300 resting-state MEG records: 182 from healthy controls, 38 from patient volunteers (ADHD, chronic pain, etc.)
• Also features the anatomical T1-weighted MRI volumes of all participants
• We also provide anonymized demographic and questionnaire data
• Current focus is on resting-state, but task data can also be contributed
• OMEGA will continue to expand, with contributions from the scientific community.

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