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TAPAS: An Open-Source Software Package for Translational Neuromodeling and Computational Psychiatry

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Frässle, Stefan, Aponte, Eduardo A., Bollmann, Saskia, Brodersen, Kay H., Do, Cao T., Harrison, Olivia K., Harrison, Samuel J., Heinzle, Jakob +13 more·2021·Frontiers in Psychiatry

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Abstract

Psychiatry faces fundamental challenges with regard to mechanistically guided differential diagnosis, as well as prediction of clinical trajectories and treatment response of individual patients. This has motivated the genesis of two closely intertwined fields: (i) Translational Neuromodeling (TN), which develops “computational assays” for inferring patient-specific disease processes from neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and behavioral data; and (ii) Computational Psychiatry (CP), with the goal of incorporating computational assays into clinical decision making in everyday practice. In order to serve as objective and reliable tools for clinical routine, computational assays require end-to-end pipelines from raw data (input) to clinically useful information (output). While these are yet to be established in clinical practice, individual components of this general end-to-end pipeline are being developed and made openly available for community use. In this paper, we present the T ranslational A lgorithms for P sychiatry- A dvancing S cience (TAPAS) software package, an open-source collection of building blocks for computational assays in psychiatry. Collectively, the tools in TAPAS presently cover several important aspects of the desired end-to-end pipeline, including: (i) tailored experimental designs and optimization of measurement strategy prior to data acquisition, (ii) quality control during data acquisition, and (iii) artifact correction, statistical inference, and clinical application after data acquisition. Here, we review the different tools within TAPAS and illustrate how these may help provide a deeper understanding of neural and cognitive mechanisms of disease, with the ultimate goal of establishing automatized pipelines for predictions about individual patients. We hope that the openly available tools in TAPAS will contribute to the further development of TN/CP and facilitate the translation of advances in computational neuroscience into clinically relevant computational assays.

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  • The standard HGF as published in the TAPAS toolbox version 6.0.1 was used to model belief state trajectories about emotions and colours separately, similar to Stefanics et al. (2019).

    “We used the standard HGF as published in the TAPAS toolbox version 6.0.1 (Frässle et al., 2021) to model belief state trajectories about emotions and colours separately, similar to Stefanics et al. (2019).”

    From Are prediction error modifications domain specific in autism but domain general in ADHD? (2025) · cites this paper as Frässle et al., 2021

    The ‘Inference > Generative Models of Behavioral Data’ section describes the HGF and identifies it as a model implemented in the TAPAS toolbox. Our copy does not identify version 6.0.1, so it supports the identification of the software but not that specific version. The separate modeling of emotions and colours is presented as the citing authors’ own use, not a result attributed to Frässle et al. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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  • The tools are freely available as part of the TAPAS software collection.

    “These tools are freely available as part of the TAPAS software collection (Frässle et al., 2021, https://github.com/ComputationalPsychiatry).”

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  • The authors provide implementations in two open-source projects available as part of the TAPAS software collection.

    “We provide such implementations in two open-source projects (Legrand et al., 2024; Thestrup Waade et al., in prep) which are available as part of the TAPAS software collection (https://github.com/ComputationalPsychiatry Frässle et al., 2021).”

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Frässle, S., Aponte, E. A., Bollmann, S., Brodersen, K. H., Do, C. T., Harrison, O. K., Harrison, S. J., Heinzle, J., Iglesias, S., Kasper, L., Lomakina, E. I., Mathys, C., Müller-Schrader, M., Pereira, I., Petzschner, F. H., Raman, S., Schöbi, D., Toussaint, B., Weber, L. A., Yao, Y., & Stephan, K. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University Health Network (CA)
Corresponding author
Stephan, Klaas E.
Venue
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Published
2021-06-02
Volume
12
Pages
680811-680811
ISSN
1664-0640 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3166255770
Cited by
169
References
233
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 10
FWCI
3.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Scopus (Elsevier) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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  • ETH Zürich Research Collection (cc-by)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Royal Society (793580, 2017-403)
  • European Commission (HORIZON2020, 793580)
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi (793580, 2017-403)
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (179377)
  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (793580, 2017-403)
  • Universität Zürich (793580, 2017-403)
  • René und Susanne Braginsky Stiftung (2017-403, 793580)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
computational psychiatry, open source software, experimental design optimization, measurement strategy optimization, data quality control, artifact removal, statistical inference, clinical decision support, differential diagnosis

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