STEM models

The STEM models form the core models and provide a flexible and comprehensive framework for organizing and describing neuroscience experiments.

• Projects: Projects serve as the highest-level organizational unit, grouping related subjects, sessions, cohorts, and collections. They define overall permissions and can be used to organize experiments for publications or day-to-day research activities.

• Subjects: Subjects are described by essential attributes such as name, sex, species, and strain.

• Sessions: Sessions are modular constructs that provide standardized descriptions of various aspects of experiments. They are composed of four main modules: Behavior, Data acquisition, Manipulations, and Epochs.

• Collections: Collections allow for grouping sessions within a project. They can be used to organize sessions for specific analyses or figures.

• Cohorts: Cohorts enable organization of subjects into meaningful groups based on shared characteristics, experimental conditions, or time frames.