SPARC — bridging the body and the brain

What Can I Do With SPARC?

Browse, View, and Get Data and Models

Freely use curated experimental data, protocols, and models of the peripheral nervous system.

View 2D and 3D Anatomical Maps

Discover relationships and datasets with interactive connectivity maps featuring different species.

Create Computational Pipelines

Connect to the o²S²PARC platform to build and explore modeling and data analysis pipelines.

Contribute to the Community

SPARC accepts data, devices, and models about the PNS and is compliant with the 2023 NIH Data Sharing Mandate.

SPARC by the numbers

The SPARC Portal currently supports 4 consortia. Visit the consortia pages to find out more about them:

SPARC Program

HEAL RE-JOIN Consortium

NIH PRECISION Human Pain Network

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We have 602 total contributors. Explore the data to find out what amazing research we have:

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Resources & Datasets

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A collection of tools to enable mapping SPARC data to organ scaffolds. Delivered through a scaffold mapping tool release of MAP Client.

Featured Datasets

This dataset contains microscopic images examining vascular structures in the mouse colon, yielding 3D images.

SPARC community members at UCF have mapped pain-sensing nerves in the rat heart for the first time, paving the way for heart disease research.

Open Office Hours

Join one of our weekly office hours to ask questions and learn more from the SPARC Data Resource Center Team.