MultiBabiVerse

MultiBabiVerse contains the code used to explore how prematurity affects early brain development using a multiverse approach. The analysis relies on 301 infant resting‑state fMRI datasets and evaluates more than a thousand preprocessing pipelines to test the stability of different network measures.

Repository structure

• Scripts/Local/ – Python modules to run the analysis on a local workstation. main_.py provides an example workflow based on the functions defined in pipeline.py.
• Scripts/Cluster/ – Variants of the same pipeline adapted for high performance computing (HPC) environments.
• multiverse_analysis_classification.py and multiverse_analysis_regression.py – Jupyter notebooks and scripts used during development to replicate parts of the analysis.
• requirements.txt – List of Python packages required to execute the code.

Installation

Clone the repository and install the dependencies with

pip install -r requirements.txt

Python 3.8 or newer is recommended.

Data

The raw fMRI time‑series and demographic files are not distributed with this repository. Update the path variables at the top of the scripts in Scripts/Local or Scripts/Cluster to point to your local copies of these data.

Running the analysis

For a local run execute

python Scripts/Local/main_.py

For large scale experiments on a cluster modify the paths inside the scripts under Scripts/Cluster/ and submit them using your scheduler of choice.

License

This project is released under the University of Oldenburg License. See the corresponding license file for details.

Author

Leonardo Zaggia – @leonardo_zaggia