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SciLake at EBRAINS Summit 2025

By Archana Golla and Stefania Amodeo

In December 2025, we presented the SciLake project at the EBRAINS Summit in Brussels, a major event bringing together researchers, clinicians, and tech developers from across Europe's brain-science community. Maya Kobchenko and Sophia Pieschnik represented our team, sharing how we are building a Scientific Knowledge Graph specifically designed for neuroscience research.

About the EBRAINS Summit

The EBRAINS Summit 2025 – Transforming Brain Research and Medicine took place from December 8-11 in Brussels. The event brought together researchers, clinicians, and technology developers to showcase how EBRAINS' infrastructure advances neuroscience and drives innovation across the field. The program featured scientific talks, poster sessions, a science market exhibition, and a dedicated public day. A key theme throughout was the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration, FAIR data practices, and interoperable tools, all values that align closely with SciLake's mission.

Our Contribution: A Neuroscience-Focused Scientific Knowledge Graph

SciLake's poster presentation was delivered by Maya Kobchenko and Sophia Pieschnik from the University of Oslo, highlighting our merged service architecture that powers a domain-specific Scientific Knowledge Graph for neuroscience.

Built on the SciLake ecosystem, our workflow integrates a neuroscience gateway derived from the OpenAIRE Graph, maps metadata to the SKG-IF format, and loads it into graph engines including Neo4J and AvantGraph for efficient visualization, querying, and analytics.

The application tier delivers impact-driven discovery through BIP! Finder's indicators, measuring popularity, influence, impulse, and citation count. To strengthen reproducibility, we employed a trained entity-recognition model that classifies openMINDS terms, enriching the relationships among research products and enabling more nuanced exploration of the neuroscience literature landscape.

For SciLake, the Summit represented an invaluable opportunity to showcase the advances in our neuroscience pilot to domain experts. 

Resources

Our poster abstract (no. 45) can be found in the official Book of Abstracts.

We invite researchers interested in exploring our neuroscience-focused Scientific Knowledge Graph to learn more through the SciLake neuroscience case study page.