We organized 10Kin1day, a pop-up scientific event with the goal to bring together neuroimaging groups from around the world to jointly analyze 10,000+ existing MRI connectivity datasets during a 3-day workshop. In this report, we describe the motivation and principles of 10Kin1day, together with a public release of 8,000+ MRI connectome maps of the human brain. Ongoing grand-scale projects like the European Human Brain Project (1), the US Brain Initiative (2), the Human Connectome Project (3), the Chinese Brainnetome (4) and exciting world-wide neuroimaging collaborations such as ENIGMA (5) herald the new era of big neuroscience. In conjunction with these major undertakings, there is an emerging trend for bottom-up initiatives, starting with small-scale projects built upon existing collaborations and infrastructures. As described by Mainen et al. (6), these initiatives are centralized around self-organized groups of researchers working on the same challenges and sharing interests and specialized expertise. These projects could scale and open up to a larger audience and other disciplines over time, eventually lining up and merging their findings with other programs to make the bigger picture.

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doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00425, hdl.handle.net/1765/117606
Frontiers in Neurology
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

van den Heuvel, M., Scholtens, L. H., Van Der Burgh, H.K. (Hannelore K.), Agosta, F. (Federica), Alloza, C. (Clara), Arango, C. (Celso), … De Lange, S.C. (Siemon C.). (2019). 10kin1day: A bottom-up neuroimaging initiative. Frontiers in Neurology (Vol. 10). doi:10.3389/fneur.2019.00425