๐Ÿšจ BIG DATA RELEASE ๐Ÿšจ We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿง 

All these recordings were performed in a distributed fashion in 12 different labs, spanning Europe and the US ๐ŸŒŽ Rigorous standardization of methods and materials allowed us to pool the data from these labs together into a single gigantic dataset ๐Ÿ™

Mice are performing our standardized perceptual decision-making task in which they have to position a stimulus in the center of a screen to receive reward. The dataset contains the stimuli and decisions, but also videos from three angles and DeepLabCut pose information. We're even releasing all the raw ephys data!

We know, it's a lot. At your own pace you can read all the details about the experimental setup, the task, processing of the data, and much more in the technical paper which accompanies this data release: figshare.com/articles/preprint

To explore the data at your leisure, visit our visualization website where you can scroll through different recording sessions, look at neural activity during example trials, and see trial-based activity of single neurons: viz.internationalbrainlab.org

Do you have itchy fingers to run your models on this humongous dataset? We totally get it! Here you can find how to download the data using our API so you can fire up those computing clusters: int-brain-lab.github.io/iblenv

This was a collective effort of our stellar team, who all put in so much work to make this monumental achievement possible. Our collaboration consists of 22 PIs, 37 researchers, and 11 staff members who all worked tirelessly to bring these data to you, the community ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ

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@InternationalBrainLab amazing how much you can put into one โ€˜tootโ€™ hereโ€ฆ

@InternationalBrainLab For folks at #SfN22 we're still at booth 3330 today and tomorrow, talking about the details of this (huge) dataset and showing it off with our VR demo. Come by and chat data or data viz, I'll be at the booth this afternoon!

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