<div dir="ltr"><b id="gmail-m_-594937688321138899m_6189745850405846018gmail-m_3700867550160369403m_-5673475829107149188gmail-docs-internal-guid-d689c124-7fff-f59b-de30-5fdf8f2bc6eb" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues -   [with corrected linked letter template below]</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As <a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott/temp/LOS_template_NEMAR18.txt">this linked letter text template</a> explains, we are pulling together (on quite short notice, but now with needed green light approval from the NIMH Office of Technology Development and Coordination) a proposal for a national data archive and active data analysis resource for processing and data mining of new and existing 'neuroelectromagnetic' (EEG, MEG, and iEEG) data. In a collaboration with Russ Poldrack and Chris Gorgolewski and their </span><a href="http://openneuro.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OpenNeuro.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> project, our 'NEMAR' project will aggregate data via our Neuroscience Gateway portal (</span><a href="http://nsgportal.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">nsgportal.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) which now provides an initial library of analysis tools, including </span><a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/EEGLAB_on_NSG" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">all of EEGLAB</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, to apply to uploaded data </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">using XSEDE high-performance, high-throughput and cloud computing resources</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Our goal is to bring human electromagnetic neuroimaging into the age of 'large data' source analysis, search, and mining. NIMH, within its BRAIN Initiative effort, aims to provide data archives that function as active data processing resources for brain research communities including ours. </span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will begin by focusing on aggregating EEG and MEG data of all types, with iEEG data to follow as well as relevant multimodal data as the relevant <a href="http://bids.neuroimaging.io/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)</a> archiving standards are published. For detailed annotation of experimental events, allowing search and integration across studies we will use the <a href="http://hedtags.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Hierarchical Event Descriptor (HED) system</a> (</span><a href="http://www.hedtags.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">hedtags.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">).</span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To have a realistic chance for funding, we need to demonstrate as much research community interest as possible to the BRAIN Initiative review panel. The attached letter gives more details and includes a request for </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a letter of interest and support</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to accompany our proposal -- which </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">we must submit on Sept. 27, 2018</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (only a week from this Wednesday)... </span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanking you in advance for your possible interest -- we would also appreciate hearing your questions and suggestions...</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Scott Makeig       Arnaud Delorme          Amit Majumdar</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience & San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD</font></span></p></b><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Scott Makeig, Research Scientist and Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0961, <a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott" target="_blank">http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott</a></div></div>