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 April 6th, 2010. Please join Dr. Anita Bandrowski for an informational session on the new features offered in NIF 2.5.  Below is information on how to join the online meeting and accompanying teleconference.

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: Preview of NIF 2.5 Release
Presenters: Dr. Anita Bandrowski
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

NIF 2.5 will include new services, incorporate new features to the search interface, and solve known issues/bugs. Through this informational session, find out more about NIF cards, NIFSTD entity recognition, new literature, and improvements on search.  Learn more about the services such as the Ontology Access Service, SOLR Service, and  the varying API interfaces. New features to look forward to are Concept-based search through autoexpansion, MyNIF capabilities to save searches, highlighted search results according to a semantic category in the NIF ontologies, and many more. Known issues regarding the scroll bar, browser compatibility, and search box behavior have been resolved and we have even improved on performance and stability of NIF Literature and Pubmed Results.

We hope you can make it to this exciting session!