Washington University in St. Louis

BALSA Neuroimaging Database

A WashU-operated database of neuroimaging scenes and datasets at balsa.wustl.edu, and now the destination of db.humanconnectome.org, which CNAMEs to proxy.nrg.wustl.edu and redirects here — the Human Connectome Project's ConnectomeDB front door resolving into WashU's own Neuroinformatics Research Group infrastructure. /api and /study both return 302 to /login/auth, so the surface is authenticated and no contract is saved. Recorded because the operator is unambiguously the institution and the redirect is itself a useful fact about where HCP data access now lands.

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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/washington-university-in-st-louis/refs/heads/main/authentication/washington-university-in-st-louis-authentication.yml

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Website
https://balsa.wustl.edu/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: washington-university-in-st-louis:balsa
name: BALSA Neuroimaging Database
x-operator: institution
description: A WashU-operated database of neuroimaging scenes and datasets at balsa.wustl.edu, and now
  the destination of db.humanconnectome.org, which CNAMEs to proxy.nrg.wustl.edu and redirects here —
  the Human Connectome Project's ConnectomeDB front door resolving into WashU's own Neuroinformatics Research
  Group infrastructure. /api and /study both return 302 to /login/auth, so the surface is authenticated
  and no contract is saved. Recorded because the operator is unambiguously the institution and the redirect
  is itself a useful fact about where HCP data access now lands.
humanURL: https://balsa.wustl.edu/
tags:
- Neuroimaging
- Research Data
- Human Connectome Project
- Gated
- Research Computing
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://balsa.wustl.edu/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/washington-university-in-st-louis-authentication.yml