The following tools help manage extremely large files as well as large numbers of smaller files. There are also tools for post-processing data for HPAA compliance:
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Cell Centered Database (CCDB) – The CCDB is an Internet databases for cellular imaging data. The CCDB houses structural and protein distribution information derived from confocal, electron microscopy and multiphoton microscopy.
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Clinical Assessment Layout Manager (CALM) – Facilitates the preparation of online data entry forms that allow for the easy input and query of a variety of numerical and non-numerical data. In a clinical or research setting, CALM can be used to streamline the development of online forms for patients’ and subjects’ data entry and for the easy maintenance and update of the ever-growing number of clinical assessments.
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Human Imaging Database (HID) System – Developed to address the problems associated with managing the increasingly large and diverse datasets collected throughout clinical and imaging communities.
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Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT) – XNAT is an open source software platform designed to facilitate management and exploration of neuroimaging and related data.
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BIRN_ID Generator – The BIRN_ID generator can be used to assign a unique ID to subjects in any type of experiment. Subjects in experiments, whether human or animal, are often assigned random numbers as identifiers. When data are being shared and compiled across studies, these numbers must be unique. The BIRN_ID Generator can be used to assign a unique identifying 12-digit number for a subject.
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Defacer for Structural MRI – This algorithm, which is still under the validation phase, locates the subject’s facial features and removes them without disturbing brain tissue. The algorithm was devised to work on T1-weighted structural MRI.
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Federated Informatics Research Environment (FIRE) – FIRE is an integrated suite of tools to put your data on a GridFTP set of servers, link it to a database which is automatically federated, to be able to retrieve it from multiple sites, with the data wrapped in XCEDE (XML) wrappers.


