AUTHOR=Tapera Tinashe M. , Cieslak Matthew , Bertolero Max , Adebimpe Azeez , Aguirre Geoffrey K. , Butler Ellyn R. , Cook Philip A. , Davila Diego , Elliott Mark A. , Linguiti Sophia , Murtha Kristin , Tackett William , Detre John A. , Satterthwaite Theodore D. 

TITLE=FlywheelTools: Data Curation and Manipulation on the Flywheel Platform

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

VOLUME=15

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroinformatics/articles/10.3389/fninf.2021.678403

DOI=10.3389/fninf.2021.678403

ISSN=1662-5196

ABSTRACT=<p>The recent and growing focus on reproducibility in neuroimaging studies has led many major academic centers to use cloud-based imaging databases for storing, analyzing, and sharing complex imaging data. Flywheel is one such database platform that offers easily accessible, large-scale data management, along with a framework for reproducible analyses through containerized pipelines. The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is the <italic>de facto</italic> standard for neuroimaging data, but curating neuroimaging data into BIDS can be a challenging and time-consuming task. In particular, standard solutions for BIDS curation are limited on Flywheel. To address these challenges, we developed “FlywheelTools,” a software toolbox for reproducible data curation and manipulation on Flywheel. FlywheelTools includes two elements: <italic>fw-heudiconv</italic>, for heuristic-driven curation of data into BIDS, and <italic>flaudit</italic>, which audits and inventories projects on Flywheel. Together, these tools accelerate reproducible neuroscience research on the widely used Flywheel platform.</p>