The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

Our next NIF Webinar is scheduled for March 9th, 2010. Please join Dr. Anita Bandrowski, NIF Curator, and Dr. Luis Marenco, M.D. from Yale University Medical College, for an informative session on the NIF LinkOut Broker. Details follow.

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: Using LinkOut Broker, A NIF Service:  Linking Publications To Databases Through Pub Med Link Out Services
Presenters: Dr. Anita Bandrowski and Dr. Luis Marenco
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

The NIF LinkOut Broker (NLB), developed by Dr. Luis Marenco and colleagues of Yale University, is designed to coordinate the assembly of links to neuroscience information items (e.g., experimental data, knowledge bases, and software tools) that are (1) accessible via the Web, and (2) related to entries in the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI’s) Entrez system. For example, resources that are mentioned in a paper are indexed in Pub Med.  The NLB collects these links from each resource and passes them to the NCBI which incorporates them into its Entrez LinkOut service.  Using the NIF LinkOut Broker, resource providers don't have to sign up separately, as all of the communications with NCBI are handled automatically by NIF.  We will show a demonstration of the LinkOut Broker in action in existing databases and will provide a tutorial on how to use this tool for your own resource.

View the full paper article on the NIF LinkOut Broker from Neuroinformatics, October 2008.

We sure hope you can make it!