Library Guides: Neuroscience: Data & Software

Data & Software

Hardware for UC Berkeley students

Student Technology Equity Program (STEP)
A program of Technology @ Berkeley, STEP provides free loaner laptops, Wi-Fi hotspots, or other peripherals such as webcams and headphones to undergraduate and graduate students based on financial need, previous support received, and instructional role (e.g., GSI). STEP accepts applications on a rolling basis throughout the academic year, while supplies last.

Software for UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students

Software @ Berkeley
Download site for software licensed campuswide and freely available to UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students with CalNet authentication.

Collaboration, file sharing and storage

Please contact Research Data Management (researchdata@berkeley.edu) before storing or sharing human data.

bCal
Berkeley-wide calendaring system. Schedule events and meetings and set up notifications.
bDrive
Berkeley instance of Google Drive; unlimited storage.
Berkeley Box
Limited online file storage and sharing, available to UCB faculty, staff, and students
bCourses Projects
Unlimited file storage for collaborative courses and projects

Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs)

Jupyter
The Jupyter Notebook is an open source, interactive data science and scientific computing platform for research data documentation.

The following ELNs offer free trials or versions (UC Berkeley does not recommend or discourage the use of any particular ELN)

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
Platform for shared high quality neuroscience datasets supported by the CRCNS funding program.
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF)
Nonprofit organization hosting resources including INCF Dataspace of shared neuroscience data, text, images, sounds, movies, models and simulations.
Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF)
Online public neuroscience data, materials, and tools. (NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research)
OpenfMRI
Freely available functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets
Open Microscopy Environment
Open-source software and data format standards for the storage and analysis of biological microscopy data.

Contact:

Bioscience, Natural Resources &
Public Health Library
esmith@library.berkeley.edu

Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biology, Comparative Biochemistry, Integrative Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience