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Release Notes for NIF 4.0

Improvements:

  • Filter within results sets: ability to filter results per column (video tutorial)
  • Significant changes to Literature search results: (video tutorial)
    • Collapsed PubMed and PubMed Central tabs into a single index
    • Checkbox option to choose to include full text in your search
    • Faceting by Year, by Author, by Journal
    • Snippets from the full text of the paper are included in search results where search term was found
  • Advanced Search Features: "Load in a New Window," "Pivot," and "Export" (video tutorial)

 

Release Notes for NIF 3.6

Improvements:

  • Add a "strict search" option
  • Mailing list accessible from NIF home page

 

Release Notes for NIF 3.5

Improvements:

  • Toxin:Tetrodo - this query syntax will now bring back a list of toxins.
  • Autocomplete options can now be alphabetized
  • "All" functionality added to literature results
  • Registry search service added to REST suite
  • Registry can now be sorted by date
  • Button added to search bar - can now choose NIF or NeuroLex for search results.
  • Default weighting support for columns added - data fields such as Gene or Protein are now weighted higher than comment, whcih should help rank appropriate results higher
  • Asterisk (*) can now be used to retrieve "all" results; "nifall" support has been deprecated

 

Release Notes for NIF 3.1

Improvements:

  • Search terms and its synonyms now appear bold in database and literature search results
  • NIF navigator is available as downloadable software link
  • NIF Disease, has been aligned to the disease ontology and disease terms are now available from NIFSTD
  • NIF Cards now pull information directly from the NIFSTD ontology via Ontoquest
  • Central Nervous System connectivity data from 5 databases is now available in RDF link
  • Link-out broker has been extended and all Link-out data updated link
  • NIF has further integrated a distributed index infrastructure (using RMI)
  • NIF indices have been updated to to accept ids in more formats (from more databases)

 

Release Notes for NIF 3.0.1

Improvements:

  • Bold inferred classes (try autocomplete for "Gabaergic neuron")

Release Notes for NIF 3.0

Improvements:

  • Improved design of the website brings a new look and feel with significant improvements in usability and integration with the complete set of NIF tools.
  • The new website is more community and social networking enabled.
  • Simple search is tied to the Neurolex wiki: if a search term is contained in the neurolex, users are provided with the basic information about that concept.
  • Community Forum - To discuss hot topics in the neurosciences community.
  • New look and user friendly design on the Neurolex Wiki for exploring, editing and creating new concepts.
  • Improved resource  registration user interface, including tools to link your resource to NIF and also to PubMed via the NIF LinkOut Broker.
  • NIF Registry Catalog is now served through Neurolex Wiki.
  • Several additional datasets now available in RDF format.

New Products

  • NIF Navigator - An information panel that provides the ability to dynamically link to NIF search results based on the NIF categories:
  • Literature (Pubmed, Open Access)
  • Data Type (Animals, Antibodies, Brain Activation Foci, Clinical Trials, Connectivity, Dataset, Disease, Drugs, Grants, Images, Microarray, Models, Pathways, People, Plasmids, Software)
  • Nervous System Levels (Brain Regions, Cellular Level, Genes, Modular Level, Multi-level, Nervous System Function)
  • NIF Registry
  • For each category, the number of results is displayed.
  • This information panel can also be incorporated into your site or application and customized to link your resource into NIF’s collection of resources and data.
  • A global registry of more than 800,000 antibodies that provides an authoritative reference to disambiguateantibody products. http://antibody registry.org.
  • Additional services and enhancements to currently available services:
    • Access to NIF Federated Database Indices.
    • Access to NIF Registry Catalog Indices.
  • New look and feel for NIF Cards, info boxes that can be added to your application or website through simple web links, with additional modules including:
    • NIF Antibody
    • NIF Disease
  • FIN - An entity highlighting service that provides dynamic links from neuroscience terms in your documents, website, or application to the rich resources within NIF.

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