Dear EEGLAB Users - To those of you who did <b>not</b> send a letter of support for our application to NIH (US) for continued support for development and maintenance of the EEGLAB environment several months ago, this is a second chance to include letters of support sent by email to <b><i><a href="mailto:eeglab@sccn.ucsd.edu">eeglab@sccn.ucsd.edu</a></i></b> by Friday, Nov. 2 (9 days from now).<div>
<br></div><div>The reviewers of our first submission complained most about the format we used for the application -- something we are working hard to fix in this submission. They also stated their feeling that "EEGLAB must be supported," a feeling with which we hope you may agree. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is our second=last chance for continued support under an NIH program intended to support development and maintenance of 'existing software,' so we would most appreciate letters that emphasize your use of EEGLAB in funded research (explicitly listing any US-funded projects or partners involved). Also of interest: letters that emphasize your use of the EEGLAB environment to publish and share your own methods and software; letters that emphasize the educational value you may have derived from working with EEGLAB tools and documentation, including the live and online EEGLAB workshops.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div>For your possible interest, following are our current draft Specific Aims. Judging from recent experience, these are likely only some of the ways in which EEGLAB tools (and human electrophysiological research in general) will grow in our collective use in coming years:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">SA1)</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <b><i>Develop and release tools implementing
state-of-the-art and innovative signal processing methods</i></b>: Develop and/or
import tools building on the EEGLAB core for EEG source separation and localization:
Advanced, robust, automated approaches to source identification including innovative
independent component analysis (ICA) and beamforming methods. Improved source
localization including MR-based source imaging based on dipole and cortical
patch elements. Better 3-D brain source visualizations. New tools for modeling
and visualizing source-level effective connectivity at the subject and group
levels. New tools to perform more flexible measure statistics via a direct
interface to R. An innovative software environment (MoBILAB) for multimodal
imaging including electrophysiology.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">SA2) Develop and release tools implementing state-of-the-art
and innovative computational methods: </span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Develop
and/or import new tools to support intensive processing of large datasets with
limited resources, including improved MATLAB memory usage methods.<b><i> </i></b>Develop
tools to support use of publicly available cloud computing and GPU resources to
support computation using EEGLAB plug-in tool sets. Promote more formal data
curation and sharing by building an active interface for adding task, event,
and subject metadata to data entered into a new open-source database and
private/public data sharing and search ecosystem, HeadIT. <b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">SA3)</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <b><i>Maintain and strengthen EEGLAB
core code,</i></b> <b><i>tools, and outreach efforts:</i></b> Maintain existing EEGLAB core code
using the EEGLAB Bugzilla facility. Continuing to implement and maintain industry-standard
code testing procedures. Continue providing a fully free and fully functional
compiled version of EEGLAB, and (non-graphic) function compatibility with
the open source Octave Matlab-code interpreter. Maintain and update EEGLAB
documentation including the tutorial wiki and an extended Online EEGLAB Workshop
and Course on electrophysiological brain imaging. Develop a new EEGLAB forum and chat room
website. Offer a monthly EEGLAB developers conference call. Develop a volunteer
Board of Advisors consisting of advanced users and developers, plus interested
advisors, to help guide further EEGLAB development.</span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div>To those who sent a letter of support for our last submission some months ago -- thanks again. We will include your letter in this next submission -- marked as such. A new letter emphasizing your recommendation could also be helpful!</div>
<div><br></div><div>for the EEGLAB development team,</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Makeig</div><div>Arnaud Delorme</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. We will also read with interest and consider your any suggestions for the proposal or otherwise.</div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Scott Makeig, Research Scientist and Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0559, <a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/%7Escott" target="_blank">http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott</a><br>
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