Adopting open-science infrastructure in the ENIGMA-Parkinson’s Disease consortium: A case study
The adoption of open science principles for data has been instrumental in enabling the creation and reuse of large datasets and efficient collaboration, but requires a dedicated open data sharing infrastructure. Although clinical neuroscience research increasingly involves large-scale collaboration on controlled, sensitive data, open science principles can bring key benefits in this setting. The unique privacy and access requirements of clinical research create challenges that require a specialized data infrastructure, focused on local governance. Here we present a narrative account of a pilot project to establish such an infrastructure for the data of the ENIGMA Parkinson’s Disease working group by adopting the decentralized Nipoppy and Neurobagel tool stack. Our collaboration has led to the adoption of community data standards among international sites of the working group and has launched an open portal that enables the cross-site discovery of cohorts based on harmonized metadata. We discuss our approach to this collaboration, the social and technical challenges we have encountered and how we addressed them in the hope that groups in similar situations may benefit from our experiences.
Authors
- Tim D. van Balkom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6643-2776)
- Elbrich M. Postma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7873-9129)
- Arman Jahanpour
- Max A. Laansma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8216-6690)
- Ysbrand D. van der Werf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-9584)
- Teus van Laar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5088-480X)
- Chris Vriend (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3111-1304)
- Neda Jahanshad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4401-8950)
- Mathieu Dugré (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2828-6031)
- Michelle Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3432-6899)
- Rick C. G. Helmich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-6573)
- Henk W. Berendse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9189-3662)
- Brent McPherson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8378-8136)
- Nikhil Bhagwat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-7141)
- Sebastian Urchs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-8579)
- Emile d’Angremont (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5468-8811)
- Alain Dagher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0945-5779)
- Eva M. van Heese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1954-5014)
- Jean‐Baptiste Poline (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9794-749X)
- Martin E. Johansson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9778-6278)
- Franziska Goltz
- Alyssa Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0174-6800)
- Odile A. van den Heuvel
- Paul M. Thompson
- Anna Dortmond (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2530-2207)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- California Southern University (US)
- University Medical Center (US)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- McGill University (CA)
- Concordia University (CA)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Aperture Neuro
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.145049
- Primary Topic
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00