Shanoir: Software as a Service Environment to Manage Population Imaging Research Repositories

Abstract : Some of the major concerns of researchers and clinicians involved in popu- lation imaging experiments are on one hand, to manage the huge quantity and diversi- ty of produced data and, on the other hand, to be able to confront their experiments and the programs they develop with peers. In this context, we introduce Shanoir, a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) environment that offers cloud services for managing the information related to population imaging data production in the context of clini- cal neurosciences. We show how the produced images are accessible through the Sha- noir Data Management System, and we describe some of the data repositories that are hosted and managed by the Shanoir environment in different contexts.