PRECISE-TBI: What have we done for you lately?

It’s been a while, but PRECISE is pleased to announce its latest release, featuring new features, content and services for our core products. We have continued to develop products to improve rigor, reproducibility and transparency across pre-clinical TBI.  Highlights include:

ODC-TBI:  The Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury

• The ODC-TBI is growing!

  • 25  new public datasets since last release!

  • Watch us grow with our new analytics dashboard, updated weekly.  

  • New tools in the sandbox for preparing and analyzing data (Fond et al., 2026)

  • Welcome to our new Editorial Board members: Cody Hubbard, Aimee Bozeman and Olivia Kalimon.

  • Continued growth of user base:  26 new labs have been added since our last release bringing the total to 141 labs, with > 350 datasets in the pipeline

• Coming soon!

  • Better search tool

  • Upgraded CDE mapping tool

• Learn more about the ODC-TBI and how it supports rigorous and reproducible science in our new preprint: Advancing the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury as an Interagency Community Platform for Data Management and Sharing ​​Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18616679

Common Data Elements (CDEs) for Preclinical TBI:

• PRECISE has released a minimum set of common variables for injury models, behavioral tasks, biomarkers, and magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy data acquisition. 

• See La Placa et al. (2026) for use cases using a series of case studies that exemplify how data can be mapped to CDEs both prospectively and retrospectively.  These use cases inform both researchers and data scientists about real-world challenges and serve as the basis for iterative improvements as CDE use evolves. 

• PRECISE is joining efforts with the Neurotrauma Preclinical Common Data Elements (CDE) & Data Standards (NT-PRECEDS) program to develop a consistent and integrated set of CDEs across TBI, spinal cord injury (SCI) and post-TBI epilepsy.  

Model Catalog:

A new beta version of the Model Catalog has been released.  Here’s what is new:

• Updated Bibliography

  • Now includes additional CCI, FPI, Model and Blast and CHIMERA model papers

• Injury parameters are now available

• Landing pages have been created for each paper in the model catalog, to provide consolidated access to paper metadata, as well as the direct links to this metadata.

• A preprint describing the model catalog and an analysis of the associated papers are available at the citation below:

  • Surles-Zeigler et al., (2026) PRECISE TBI Model Catalog: Increasing Accessibility and Reproducibility in TBI research BiorXiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.10.704562

    
    

Blast Education resources:

Drs. Zezong Gu and Catherine Johnson continue to promote and practice reproducible practices for pre-clinical open field blast (ofb) research,  making data and protocols openly available through ODC-TBI and protocols.io

• New Open Field Blast datasets coming to the ODC-TBI Repository; seven new datasets are in press and one is under revision following the PRECISE CDEs using the ODC-TBI tools for the CDE mapping. 

• Three recently published articles, Jackson et al., 2024 Shock Waves, Loflin and Johnson, 2024 Shock Waves, and Athertya and Du et al., 2025 J Neuroimaging, cited the “open-field blast model in mice” protocol made available at  protocols.io.  This protocol has been viewed > 1100 times!

•  Three manuscripts (Gu et al., 2026; Bauer et al., 2026a and 2026b) are under revision for a special issue of J. Neurotrauma.  Titles and links are under Outreach section below.

• RRIDs in action!  RRIDs were included in new publications to make it easier to identify and track the PRECISE tools and organisms used in this study:

  • Jackson et al. Shock Waves 2024

  • Jackson et al. Int J Med Sci. 2024

  • Zuckerman et al. Front Cell Neurosci. 2024 

Outreach:

• Preprints of a series of articles on PRECISE tools and perspectives on rigor and reproducibility in preclinical TBI for an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma are available:

  • Fond et al, (2026) Improving data quality in neurotrauma data sharing: The Open Data Commons minimal data standards and a data tool for compliance, Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18603759.

  • Martone et al., (2026) Advancing the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury as an Interagency Community Platform for Data Management and Sharing ​​Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18616679

  • Bauer et al  (2026) What is a Blast? Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18625039

  • Bauer et al (2026) A Review of Preclinical Blast Models for Real-World Relevance in Traumatic Brain Injury Research Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18624976

  • LaPlaca et al (2026) Enhancing Data Sharing for Preclinical Traumatic Brain Injury Research with Common Data Elements (CDEs): An Update Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18624818

  • Surles-Zeigler et al., (2026) PRECISE TBI Model Catalog: Increasing Accessibility and Reproducibility in TBI research BiorXiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.10.704562

  • Gu et al. (2026) A Live Experience of Preclinical Studies for 'Paper of the Future' with the PRECISE-TBI Resources DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18624843

  • Bandrowski et al. (2026) Impact of J. Neurotrauma Checklist on Rigor Reporting, J. Neurotrauma, In press.  Preprint available at  BiorXiv, DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.16.699952v1 

  • Ferguson et al. (2026) Towards creating an injury severity score; data and knowledge driven approaches DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18472747

  • Fond et al. (2026) Improving data quality in neurotrauma data sharing: The Open Data Commons minimal data standards and a data tool for compliance, J. Neurotrauma, in press.  Preprint available at Zenodo: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18603759