What is BIDS?

“Neuroimaging experiments result in complex data that can be arranged in many different ways, and for a long time, there was no consensus on how to organize and share data obtained in neuroimaging experiments. Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), describes a simple and easy to adopt way of organizing neuroimaging and behavioral data” (Gorgolewski et al., 2016; Niso et al., 2018).

The BIDS Specification defines the rules for data organizing and naming conventions. It is continuously updated thanks to community efforts. To ensure that the Specifications are implemented consistently, BIDS provides BIDS Schema, a machine readable representation written in YAML format. The BIDS Schema describes the different possible objects (BIDS concepts), rules (for naming filepaths and contents) and meta (the context to which rules can be applied).

MEGqc uses ancpBIDS to handle MEG datasets efficiently. This library builds on the BIDS specification and schema to load datasets, manage metada and write derivatives directly to your local drive; all in a structure and BIDS-compliant way.

Would you like to learn how to use ancpbids within your pipeleine?

Check out the ancpBIDS documentation for a full tutorial with examples.

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