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ArticleCurrent protocols2025

Using BossDB Tools to Access, Visualize, and Share Volumetric Neuroscience Data.

Hannah Martinez, Nicole Guittari, Timothy Gion, Robert Hider, Erik C Johnson, Jordan Matelsky, Nicole Tregoning, Daniel Xenes, Brock Wester

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Article in Current protocols, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Hannah MartinezJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4561-1203
Nicole GuittariJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Timothy GionJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Robert HiderJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Erik C JohnsonJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Jordan MatelskyJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Nicole TregoningJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Daniel XenesJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.
Brock WesterJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland.

Funding

Boss: A cloud-based data archive for electron microscopy and x-ray microtomographyR24MH114785 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BROCK A. WESTER · 2018 to 2026
$6.9M
BRAIN CONNECTS: An Integrative Connectomics Coordination Center (IC3)U24NS139927 · NINDS · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI Forrest Christie Collman, Hongkui Zeng · 2025 to 2026
$4.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R24 MH114785NINDS NIH HHS U24 NS139927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BossDB is a free and publicly accessible archive for storing and sharing petascale neuroimaging data. Focused on FAIR (i.e., findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles, it utilizes cloud-based infrastructure and software tools to facilitate data access and analysis. BossDB specializes in storing volumetric electron microscopy (EM) and X-ray microtomography (XRM) imaging data along with associated segmentations, annotations, meshes, and connectomes. Users can browse, access, download, visualize, analyze, and upload data through a variety of interfaces, including the BossDB website, Python software development kit (SDK), and web application programming interface (API). Here we present step-by-step protocols for using these interfaces and BossDB tools to perform each of these tasks. These protocols target any researcher who is interested in learning more about BossDB public datasets, analyzing high-resolution neuroimaging and connectomics data with software tools, or contributing a project to BossDB's catalog of public and private data. © 2025 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC. Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Support Protocol 1: Browsing public data online Basic Protocol 1: Accessing data with Python Basic Protocol 2: Accessing data with data API Basic Protocol 3: Metadata querying via metadata API Basic Protocol 4: Creating a Neuroglancer visualization Support Protocol 2: Creating a BossDB account Basic Protocol 5: Uploading data and metadata Basic Protocol 6: Uploading a small dataset for private use.

Indexed as

Information DisseminationNeuroimagingNeurosciencesSoftwareHumansX-Ray MicrotomographyBossDBconnectomicselectron microscopyneuroglancerneuroscience

Identifiers

PMID41148113
PMCPMC12560848

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