What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you correctly structure and verify Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) datasets so neuroscience and biomedical files are consistently organized, discoverable, and ready for downstream tools.
Core Features & Use Cases
- BIDS dataset structuring & discovery: Organize modalities into the correct
sub-* / ses-* / <datatype>/ hierarchy and query datasets using BIDS entities (subject, session, task, run, acquisition, etc.).
- BIDS compliance validation & fixes: Validate datasets against the BIDS specification and use
.bidsignore to manage what gets checked.
- Conversion and metadata authoring: Convert DICOM to BIDS with common pipelines (HeuDiConv, dcm2bids, BIDScoin), generate
dataset_description.json, and write/maintain JSON sidecar metadata and events/participants files.
Quick Start
Use the bids skill to validate that your dataset follows BIDS and to guide you in adding any missing dataset_description.json, sidecar fields, and required event/metadata files for tasks like func/bold.