Collaboration and reuse as a result of sharing data: a case study of Janelia Research Campus’s Carsen Stringer

• Carsen Stringer, Marius Pachitariu and her colleagues at University College London shared the processed data from experiments where they developed tools for large-scale recordings of tens of thousands of mice neurons to better understand how the visual cortex works so others can reproduce and reuse their data.

• This data has driven statistical tool development and enabled cross-species interrogation of neural activity. For instance, other researchers have developed statistical techniques for parsing large-scale neural activity, and compared zebrafish neural activity to the mouse visual cortex data collected by Carsen and her colleagues.

• Her data has also been used in The Neuroscience Data Challenge at the University of Bristol where researchers apply modelling and data approaches to neuroscience using data publicly available.