ABCD-J software ecosystem showcased at OHBM 2026

ABCD-J researchers contributed to an exhibition booth, award-winning poster and “BrainHack” during this year’s Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France. The OHBM Annual Meeting is one of the largest international conferences in neuroimaging.

Throughout the conference, members of the consortium welcomed visitors to the ABCD-J exhibition booth, where they introduced the ABCD-J platform and its growing ecosystem of interoperable, open-source tools, highlighting how these software can support reproducible neuroimaging research.

Additionally, Michael Hanke et al. presented a poster illustrating how ABCD-J’s interoperable software toolstack can be combined into relevant workflows for computational neuroscience lab groups. For example, the poster highlights how shacl-vue and Dump Things Service support workflows for automatically generating lab websites from structured metadata. We are particularly proud to share that the poster was awarded OHBM’s People’s Choice Award, receiving the most votes from OHBM attendees for the best poster presentation! The poster is publicly available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/20583436.

Prior to the main conference, several ABCD-J members participated in Brainhack Bordeaux, a collaborative hackathon accompanying OHBM. The team worked on further developing technologies for metadata management and research infrastructure, exploring how structured metadata can flow seamlessly between software components to support collaboration and various downstream applications (e.g., project websites and data catalogs).

Together, these activities demonstrate the continued evolution of ABCD-J from a collection of software projects into an integrated ecosystem supporting open, FAIR and collaborative health research.