Savio, A. & Graña, M.
Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain
BCC is a spin-off of the Computational Intelligence Group of the UPV/EHU. Its main objective is to provide assistance and computational support to neuroscience researchers in their data manipulation, from data management to the application of computational algorithms needed to extract publishable results and conclusions. BCC is born from the recognition of the following facts: (a) neuroscience experiments are complex data analysis problems which can benefit from a professional approach in the treatment of the data; (b) neuroscience researchers come from a wide variety of fields, most of them lacking the needed computational science background, hence, much effort goes on mastering tools and methods that could be eased by professional support; (c) researchers are interested in reproducible results obtained through sound methodological approaches in a field that is experiencing fast evolution by new tools, procedures and methods.
We also aim to provide software interfaces with machine learning-based quality checkers and computational resources in an accountable way. This will allow to manage human and computer power to successfully complete research projects. Cloud computing will make it feasible to achieve resource tailoring to the actual needs of the research project. Computer and neuro-scientific staff backed by success stories will make this possible keeping pace with the forefront of the computational technologies applied in neuroscience.