Documentation for AABC Release 1:

Data Access:

Get started by Registering for BALSA and agreeing to the AABC Data Use Terms. An academic, non-profit, or government email address is required for agreement to the AABC Data Use Terms and accessing the data.

To download imaging data, you must 1) install Aspera Connect (scroll down to “IBM Aspera client-deployed software” to find Aspera Connect download links) and 2) an Aspera Connect plugin for your browser (available from Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.). Set Preferences>Transfers in Aspera Connect to a directory with sufficient space for large downloads.

To download the full non-imaging data, click the Files tab and Download under AABC_Release1_Non-imaging_Data-XL.csv. Use the Column Selector and Export CSV to view, filter on, and download all or subsets of Core Variables for selected subjects.

Data Information:

• Subject and Event Breakdown for Imaging and Non-imaging Data          Tables of number of HCA and AABC participants/sessions/events with imaging and non-imaging data and overview of events names and sequence
• Imaging Data Packages                                                                            Description of imaging data package contents (coming soon Appendix 1: File Names and Directory Structure)
• Appendix 2: Behavioral & Clinical Instrument Details & References
• Data Dictionary for Non-imaging phenotypic variables                                  Data Dictionary for both Core Variables shown in the BALSA UI and extended variables. Includes variable descriptions, response options, coding for responses, contextual (non-data) informational variables, and completeness indicators of whether variables were collected for each study.

IDP Information and References:

• Appendix 2: Imaging Data Phenotypes Descriptions 

  Instructions and HCA1798 group average template data for visualizing the layers of output produced by the HCP pipelines, including IDPs, in Connectome Workbench.

  • AreaNamesAndIndices-supplement                                                    Description/properties/references of regions in the HCP_MMP v1.0 Atlas from the Neuroanatomical Supplementary Results for A Multi-modal Parcellation of Human Cerebral Cortex (Glasser et al. Nature 2016).
  • AreaNamesAndIndicesAndNetworks.csv                                          Names of regions of interest (ROIs) in both brain hemispheres and cross-reference to Ji Network Label, cortical networks, and IDP spreadsheet.

Data Visualization: 

• AABC Release 1 Brain Surface and Volume Template 

  Instructions and HCA1798 group average template data for visualizing the layers of output produced by the HCP pipelines, including IDPs, in Connectome Workbench.