Connectionists: Announcing Open Source Brain v2.0: NetPyNE, NWB Explorer and JupyterLab; ModelDB models and DANDI Archive datasets

[Padraig Gleeson]

<Apologies for cross posting>

We would like to announce a major new version of the Open Source Brain 
platform (v2.0) we have been working on which has a range of new 
features for you to try: https://v2.opensourcebrain.org.

You can create cloud based, persistent workspaces which contain models 
and data from a number of sources 
(https://v2.opensourcebrain.org/repositories) including:

- All *OSBv1* projects incorporating NeuroML and PyNN models
- All *ModelDB* entries
- All *BRAIN Initiative DANDI Archive* datasets containing NWB files

Inbuilt applications which can open these workspaces include:

*- NetPyNE UI*, a 3D graphical application for neuronal simulations 
(NeuroML compliant)
*- NWB Explorer* for opening and visualising data in NWB files
*- JupyterLab*, a full interactive Python environment, with a number of 
computational neuroscience, data analysis and machine learning packages 
preinstalled.

Full documentation is at https://docs.opensourcebrain.org and a Guided 
Tour introducing the main features of the platform is here 
<https://docs.opensourcebrain.org/OSBv2/Guided_tour.html>. We are very 
keen for new users to try out our platform. Please note that you will 
require a different username/password for OSBv2 from OSBv1. We are also 
very happy to make dedicated resources available on the platform to 
support classes/tutorials/computational neuroscience schools.


The Open Source Brain Initiative aims to:

- Make neuroscience experimental data and computational models from 
around the world easily findable in a single location

- Provide a free to use, collaborative, web based, interactive computing 
platform that integrates state of the art software tools for accessing 
and working with large scale data sets and computational models.

- Encourage the use of standards for making research outputs more FAIR 
(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable): OSBv2 supports 
NeuroML for models and NWB for data.

Please get in contact if you would like to help us with any of these goals!

Regards,
The OSB Team
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