BIDScoin is distributed as free and open-source software to foster the community-driven effort to promote and facilitate the use of BIDS standard.

In this paper, we show its design and demonstrate how it can be applied to a downloadable tutorial data set. BIDScoin does not require programming skills to be set up and used and supports plugins to extend their functionality. In this paper, we introduce BIDScoin, a cross-platform, flexible, and user-friendly converter that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to help users finding their way in BIDS standard. To date, a variety of software tools help researchers in converting their source data to BIDS but often require programming skills or are tailored to specific institutes, data sets, or data formats.

3NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenĪnalyses of brain function and anatomy using shared neuroimaging data is an important development, and have acquired the potential to be scaled up with the specification of a new Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard.

2Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain.

1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.Marcel Peter Zwiers 1*, Stefano Moia 2 and Robert Oostenveld 1,3

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