São Paulo – The Center for Research, Innovation and Diffusion in Neuromatemática (NeuroMat) – one of CEPIDs supported by FAPESP – has just launched the first module of the free software Neuroscience Experiments System (NES), which helps you organize, control and data management clinical neurophysiological and experimental.
This first version of the tool, available for download on the site, is designed to offer a user friendly interface for the storage of clinical data and medical evaluations of patients and experiments of volunteers. In addition, there is an interface for managing electronic questionnaires applied in the research.
“The software integrates a construction project of a public neurophysiological database, organized by CEPID NeuroMat, a pioneering initiative in Neuroscience. We also hope that these initiatives facilitate cooperation between researchers, “said Kelly Rose Braghetto, Professor, Department of Computer Science of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (IME-USP) and a member of the group responsible for developing the NES.
Created in 2013 at USP, the NeuroMat includes about 50 researchers from areas such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Neuroscience, Biology, Physics and Communication of Brazilian and foreign universities. The group’s goal is to integrate mathematical modeling and Neuroscience, seeking a greater understanding of the human brain.
According to Braghetto, the first NES software module was built using as a model the experiments conducted in the Neurology Institute Deolindo Couto (INDECI), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), under the coordination of Professor Claudia Vargas, one of the leading researchers from CEPID.
“The UFRJ group follows the rehabilitation of patients with brachial plexus injury [a type of neurological damage that impairs the movement of the arms and hands]. This first module was developed for registering outpatient data, “said Braghetto Agency FAPESP.
It is also being implemented a module for recording information of the experimental protocols and physiological measurements collected in the research.
“Often the researcher does not record all the details of the protocol used for the experiment, as certain parameters of the equipment configuration. These details can impact analysis. The software will prevent this kind of situation, “Braghetto said.
Open source
According to the researcher, as the code of the program is open, interested parties can download and adapt to meet the needs of their own research.
The next module to be developed is intended to manage data collected in neuroimaging studies such as MRI. There will also be a dedicated module to the management of data from animal experiments.
The sequence of implementation of the NES data acquisition modules will be prioritized according to the demands of laboratories associated with the CEPID.
The NeuroMat team hopes that in future experiments databases Neuroscience can be shared among scientists.
“Care for the privacy of volunteers and patients from which the data are collected is a hallmark of the technological development of CEPID. The practice of providing databases already occurs in other areas of science with some frequency, but it is still unusual i n Neuroscience “, commented Braghetto.
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