Instructions to download data from the Human Conectomme database - Jonathan

Team contributors: Jonathan Gallego, Brainhack School

This files describes the required steps for downloading data from the HCP database

The first step is to access the HCP database website (https://db.humanconnectome.org/) and create an account in order to be able to access to the data
Many useful resources on the organization of the HCP database can be found in https://www.humanconnectome.org/connectomeDB/help/
After creating an account and loggin in, go to the WU-Minn HCP data 1200 subjects release and click the dropdown menu to select the MEG subjects
This will open a new tab showing a list of the HCP subject that have MEG data
For this project, we used a small subsample of 12 subjects from this release, including the first 6 male and 6 female subjects that had all the desired data available (unprocessed MEG, processed MEG, MEG anatomy, MRI structural data, preprocessed fMRI data).
The subjects used for this project were:
100307, 102816, 105923, 106521, 108323, 109123, 111514, 112920, 113922, 116524, 116726, 133019
To download the data from one subject, click on the id to access the subject folder, then click on the Download images button on the right side of the screen
Click on the "+" icon next to the derivables you want to download them to add them to the cue
After selecting your files click on the Download Packages button
You will be prompted to install the Aspera Connect plugin in your browser in order to download the data. Install and activate the plugin on the extensions menu from your browser settings
Once you finished downloading all the data, you will need to extract the files to access the content