BIDScoin is a user-friendly open-source Python application that converts (“coins”) source-level (raw) neuroimaging data sets to standardized data sets that are organized according to the BIDS specification. BIDScoin uses a mapping approach to discover your repository's different source data types and convert them into BIDS data types. Different runs of source data are uniquely identified by their file system properties (e.g. file name or size) and their attributes (e.g. ProtocolName from the DICOM header). While this command-line procedure exploits all information available on disk, BIDScoin presents a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for researchers to check and edit these mappings. Data conversions are performed within plugins, such as plugins that employ dcm2niix, spec2nii or nibabel.

BIDScoin requires no programming knowledge in order to use it, but users can use regular expressions and plug-ins to further enhance BIDScoin’s power and flexibility, and readily handle a wide variety of source data types.