On Aug. 4, 2014, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, California Institute of Technology, New York University School of Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, Berkeley announced a collaboration aimed at making databases about the brain more useable and accessible for neuroscientists’ – a step seen as critical to accelerating the pace of discoveries about the brain in health and disease.

This was the first collaboration launched by “Neurodata Without Borders,” a broader initiative with the goal of standardizing neuroscience data on an international scale, making it more easily sharable by researchers worldwide. This first project was called “Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology.”