Sent on behalf of Thomas Grabowski, OHBM 2013, LOC Chair:
Open Brain Mapping at the 1st HBM Hackathon: Open Brain Mapping in the Cloud
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OHBM 2013 is only six weeks away, bringing the brain mapping community to Seattle, a city at the forefront of open neuroscience and information technology. The Local Organizing Committee, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and Amazon Web Services are excited for the opportunity to highlight these aspects of our field in the HBM Hackathonhttp://humanbrainmapping.org/hackathon, a meeting-long event integrated with and running parallel to the activity in the poster and exhibition space.
Our goals are to accelerate the development of a critical mass of cloud-based data, analytic, and computational resources for human brain mapping, and to provide OHBM attendees with access to and knowledge about them.
The event is being supported by a broad spectrum of partners from the open neuroimaging community, making it possible to allow an unprecedented degree of access to key resources in the field, including the Allen Human Brain Atlas, the first data release of the Human Connectome Project, the NITRC Computational Environment, and more. Experts from the Allen Institute, Amazon Web Services, Human Connectome Project, NITRC, INCF, LONI, NDAR, BIRN, and others will bring their expertise on-venue.
Register for the HBM Hackathon http://humanbrainmapping.org/hackathon to participate in a contest organized around three challenges, to tinker less formally, or just to be open to open neuroscience. You’ll also receive $100 in free AWS credits to make use of cloud computing technologies.
The contest is organized around three Challenges:
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Challenge 1. Best imaging and gene expression relationship discovered via integration of imaging data with the Allen Human Brain Atlas.
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Challenge 2. Best cortical neural systems relationship or visualization based on integration of resting state fMRI data with other HBM Hackathon accessible datasets.
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Challenge 3. To be announced the week of the meeting and pursued completely on site.
*See the list of datasets http://ohbm-seattle.github.io/datasets*
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Winning entries in each category receive:
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An invitation to submit project to Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods with Open Access Publication Fees waived (must undergo standard peer review) -
Amazon Kindle Fire and/or Paperwhite (limit 3 per team) -
AWS hosts AMI and/or data resulting from the hackathon free of charge -
Free GitHub Membership with private repositories (Challenge 1: one year silver, Challenge 2: 1 year bronze, Challenge 3: six months bronze)
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To learn more, visit the HBM Hackathon Blog http://ohbm-seattle.github.io/or join the discussion group http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HBM-Hackathon-4957800.
And be sure to register at: humanbrainmapping.org/hackathon