TemplateFlow

TemplateFlow provides a centralized, versioned archive of human and nonhuman neuroimaging templates and atlases to standardize reference anatomies and support reproducible neuroimaging analyses.

Key Features:

• Centralized Repository: A centralized archive of human and nonhuman imaging templates and atlases.
• Programmatic Access: A client for programmatic retrieval and integration of template and atlas resources.
• Extensibility and Contribution: A transparent pathway for researchers to contribute and vet new templates and atlases.
• Software Engineering Best Practices: Implementation of unambiguous resource identification, data management, versioning, synchronization, programmatic extensibility, and continuous integration.
• FAIR Principles Compliance: Adoption of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable standards for distributing templates and atlases.

Scientific Applications:

• Multiverse template analyses: Enables testing whether neuroimaging results generalize across standard references, templates, atlases, and spatial scales.
• Cross-species reference standardization: Supports analyses using both human and nonhuman templates and atlases to facilitate comparative neuroimaging studies.

Methodology:

Provides versioned, provenance-tracked template and atlas resources with unambiguous resource identifiers, programmatic retrieval via a client, data management, synchronization, and continuous integration.