Klaus Mathiak introduced the PING that serves to coordinate, standardize and optimize data acquisition and storage of the neuroimaging studies within the research network for psychological disorders funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The analyses of structural and functional changes associated with psychiatric disorders on a larger scale could be possible now! In the framework of PING, the open-source LORIS database was developed for multimodal imaging data and multi-center studies.