Hello,
First of all, thank you for this fantastic resource!
From the PNAS paper: "Specific commands can be found in the preprocessing scripts that will be released at http://www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000/ on publication of this paper". Where can I find those scripts? If I may push my luck, it would be great if you could also make available scripts to reproduce your analyses.
Thank you in advance,
roberto

Roberto,

Your request is very reasonable. Our plan is to release the set of scripts for image pre-processing and individual subject connectivity analyses for next Wednesday (March 3rd). Maarten Mennes has been preparing them for release, with the assistance of Clare Kelly (basically, trying to make them as straightforward as possible - they will be able to batch run the entire dataset).

Sorry for the delays.

Best,
Mike

We are pleased to announce the beta-release of the scripts that supported the initial feasibility analyses recently reported in PNAS (Biswal et al., 2010). The release is comprised of a series of Unix-/Linux-based scripts that can readily batch process the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project dataset (in its entirety or any subset of sites), carrying out both image-preprocessing and individual level functional connectivity analyses.

It is our hope that the release of this set of scripts will facilitate the introduction of resting state fMRI approaches to the larger scientific community. The scripts have been modified from their original form to increase the ease of distribution and user-friendliness. Processing steps included in the scripts are the same as reported in the PNAS paper. The scripts can easily be modified by users to address individual needs.

The current release is a beta-release. Additional functionality (e.g., ALFF/fALFF) will be added in the official first release, anticipated for March 10, 2010. Any comments suggestions regarding the scripts are welcomed – an email forum is easily accessible on the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project website located on NITRC (www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000).

We would like to thank Maarten Mennes and Clare Kelly for their many efforts in making this release possible.

Disclaimer: Usage of the scripts provided by 1000 Functional Connectomes Project (www.nitrc.org/projects/fcon_1000) is unrestricted. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure the accuracy of any results obtained with the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project scripts. The 1000 Functional Connectomes Project and its contributors are not responsible for the accuracy of any data obtained using the scripts provided.

We are pleased to announce the official release of the scripts that supported the initial feasibility analyses recently reported in PNAS (Biswal et al., 2010). The release is comprised of a series of Unix-/Linux-based scripts that can readily batch process the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project dataset (in its entirety or any subset of sites), carrying out both image-preprocessing and individual level seed-based and dual-regression based functional connectivity analyses, as well as ALFF and fALFF. Template images generated through the “meta-ICA” of the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project dataset are included as well (see Biswal et al., 2010 in PNAS for details).

See 1000 Functional Connectomes Project MediaWiki for instruction manual, and forums for user discussion.