The NeuroMat Open Database is an initiative of NeuroMat to provide an open free access platform for sharing and retrieval data, metadata and documents from neuroscience experiments.

• The portal allows anyone to easily search, explore, link, download and reuse the data for any purposes.
• All the experiment data is anonimyzed.
• Versioning is performed for experimental data that Portal receives. A new version of experiment will be created each time the researcher send new data to include in a existent experiment. This will allow the user, at any time in future, to be able to retrieve a specific version.

This website is an attempt in promoting free, mostly open source projects that can be used for scientific projects. The NeuroMat Open Database is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

The NeuroMat Open Database can contain a very wide variety of data and metadata from neuroscience experiment. Currently, the user can store and share data and metadata from electrophysiological experiment as those that include data collected from electroencephalography (EEG), electromiography (EMG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The data can be raw data obtained from signal acquisition equipments (e.g., EEG and EMG) or other additional files related to the different types of stages that an experimental protocol can has (e.g., multimedia files for stimuli presentation, and spreadsheets with behavioral data). In addition, the NeuroMat Open Database allows to store data collected from an experiment's subject by means of the Goalkeeper game application.

The rest API is used to feed the open database with experimental data generated by the NeuroMat's researchers. Currently, the API intermediates the receiving and retrieving of neuroscience experimental data from research laboratories which use the Neuroscience Experiments System (NES). But the API implementation is being developed in such a way that it can be easily adapted to receive (or transfer) data from (for) other client software systems.

Through NES, a researcher will be able to send the data and metadata of his/her experiments to the NeuroMat Open Database. The data is anonymized before being sent from NES to the Open Database; no sensitive data leaves NES or is stored in the Open Database. When a new dataset of an experiment arrives at the Open Database, it will be evaluated by a curatorial committee. The committee will analyze if the dataset is appropriate for publication on the NeuroMat Open Database. The researcher will be notified of the status of his/her data submission. After approval, the dataset will be made publicly available on the NeuroMat Open Database web portal.

• How to send experiment data from NES to NeuroMat Open Database.
• Neuroscience Experiment System (NES) documentation.
• Neuromat site.