NIF | Blog

Neurodata Without Borders needs your imput!

01:42pm August 12, 2014
718 views
News & Events, Data Spotlight

Dear Colleague,The Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) project has just started. The project goal is to build a common data format for neurophysiology data from Allen Brain Institute, Janelia Farms and tw...

04:13pm August 6, 2014
635 views
News & Events, General information

OverviewThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a significant portfolio of inventions available for licensing. The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) has evaluated many of them to identify thos...

Don't like to go searching for gut viruses? Use a computer instead, they are much cleaner

The Neuroscience Information Framework often gets questions about what types of things can be found in the data about brains presumably because people would rather poke in brains than data.However, so...

10:49am July 29, 2014
553 views
News & Events

Antibodyresource.com is running an interesting validation program over in the UK.They are providing free samples of antibodies, the catch is that they would like to see if the antibody validates. If t...

10:34am August 13, 2014
978 views
Data Spotlight, Webinar Announcement

Drs. Martone of NIF and Iorns of Science Exchange among others address important issues around reproducibility of data.A video recording of this event is available here. Note you have to register to s...

10:39am July 15, 2014
1148 views
News & Events, Data Spotlight

Well wonder no more! NIF is here to help answer these burning questions.This week we have a couple of new sources from the aging community: AnAge and the Lifespan Observations Database.The AnAge data ...

04:57pm June 9, 2014
2608 views
News & Events

New in NIF this week we have upgraded our view of ModelDB. Now little green or red dots appear next to each model. What does it mean if there is a green dot? - Green dots indicate that the model runs ...

04:43pm June 5, 2014
642 views
News & Events

Wonder no more!!!Version 5.7 of NeuroMorpho.Org was released on 30 May, 2014.The release included 29 new data sets (1341 reconstructions), including from three new animal species (dragonfly, moth, and...

04:50pm May 15, 2014
508 views
News & Events

The course will discuss principles, approaches and resources that neuroscientists can use to navigate the literature and develop future research paths.Specifically. the course will introduce a new set...

03:14pm May 15, 2014
613 views
News & Events, Data Spotlight

Dear NIF community;Many of you are aware of the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC - nitrc.org) for finding and hosting software. What is somewhat less well known is tha...

10:21am May 1, 2014
557 views
News & Events

The National Science Foundation (NSF) – Directorate for Engineering (ENG) in cooperation with the DARPA and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces a workshop to explore the scientific and tec...

08:26am April 28, 2014
553 views
News & Events

The 2014 Hackathon registration is open! This unique 3-day event (June 5-7) will be held prior to annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) at the legendary c-base, a decked-ou...

11:41am April 24, 2014
503 views
News & Events

Tuesday April 29th2pmCNCB Large Conference Room Cesar A. Berrios-Otero, Ph.D.F1000Research Sharing data, reducing bias and enhancing research papersUnavailability of data and research result...

01:01pm April 11, 2014
2326 views
Essays, Curation, News & Events

We believe that reproducing science starts with being able to know what "materials" were used in generating the results.Along with a truly dedicated group of volunteers from academia, government and n...

Neuroinformatics 2014: abstract submission extended to April 27

The yearly INCF Congress provides a meeting place for researchers in all fields related to neuroinformatics. This year, the congress will take place August 25-27 in Leiden, Netherlands.Keynotes will b...

07:40am April 8, 2014
1154 views
Essays, Curation, News & Events

If the Neuroscience Information Framework is any guide, we are certainly in an era of “Openness” in biomedical science. A search of the NIF Registry of tools, databases and projects for biomedic...

10:07am April 2, 2014
579 views
News & Events

New intensive 4-week summer course, Neurotechnologies for Analysis of Neural Dynamics (NAND) designed to introduce physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists to the major questions ...

03:16pm March 3, 2014
1261 views
News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

The Brain Health Registry -- led by researchers at UCSF -- is a groundbreaking, web-based project designed to speed up cures for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other brain disorders. It uses onlin...

09:21am February 11, 2014
869 views
Interoperability

What is resource identification quarter?At the 2012 Society for Neuroscience meeting, NIF met with the editors-in-chief of about 25 neuroscience journals attempting to convince them that research reso...

02:43pm January 24, 2014
718 views
General information

This workshop for investigators new to aging research is focused on the breadth of research supported by the National Institute on Aging, including basic biology, neuroscience, behavioral and social r...

05:19pm January 21, 2014
714 views
Data Spotlight

An article by Zaldivar and Krichmar discusses a comparison and alignment of data (never an easy thing) between the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas and Gensat data, mainly. This article deals with the issue of...

09:38am January 17, 2014
587 views
News & Events

SYMPOSIUM: "Tools for integrating and planing experiments in neuroscience;March 11, 2014, NRB auditorium UCLA;http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/events/planing.htmlTOPIC: The increasing volume, complexity and i...

01:57pm January 4, 2014
481 views
News & Events, General information

Each day, our society creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data (that’s 2.5 followed by 18 zeros). Conventional statistical analysis and business intelligence software are not designed to capture, curat...

09:31am January 6, 2014
3156 views
Essays, Data Spotlight, General information

The following is is a guest blog by Krystyna Gutowska in collaboration with the author of the articles, Dr. Witkiewicz.*All Figures can be viewed at https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/gridquery.php?q=Halina%20...

08:42am January 2, 2014
403 views
Uncategorized

Guest Blog by Krystyna Gutowska...

10:08am December 20, 2013
882 views
Essays, Interoperability

An interesting report out of the UBC, there is very little data left after a few years. Vines et al. 2014 point out that after articles are published, the data is lost at a rate of about 17% per year....

10:17am December 16, 2013
869 views
News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

Dear NIF Community members;Our partners in crime, FORCE11, are hosting a working group, the Resource Identification Initiative, that is working with journals to make it easier to identify research res...

01:03pm December 4, 2013
627 views
News & Events

Re-post from UCL:University College London is looking to recruit a new biocurator. Working within the Cardiovascular genetics group the biocurator is funded to annotate genes relevant to Parkinson's d...

12:45pm December 2, 2013
471 views
Uncategorized

105 kda kinase-like protein2-5a-dependent rnase26s proteasome non-atpase regulatory subunit 1308724l>5'-amp-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-25-ht3c5-ht3d5-ht3e5-ht770 kda ribosomal...

09:38am December 10, 2013
947 views
Force11, Data Spotlight

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News Office of the Director (OD) <http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/> For Immediate Release: Monday, December 9, 2013CONTAC...

04:37pm November 22, 2013
783 views
Interoperability, News & Events

NIF is proud to support this important effort by members of FORCE11 (the future of scholarly communications) and request that the NIF community comment.Announcing the “Draft Declaration of Data Cita...

03:14pm November 20, 2013
672 views
News & Events

I am reposting a news item from BioCompare one of our initial partners in the antibodyregistry and also one of the companies backing the resource identification initiative. We hope to bring in additio...

04:21pm November 19, 2013
844 views
Curation, Data Spotlight

From our friends up the coast.We are happy to announce a major BAMS update:1. Data. more than 4000 connections reports collated from the primaryrat literature. The number of publicly available connect...

09:29am November 11, 2013
457 views
Data Spotlight

Sit down and learn about some of our great computational tools!Monday 10 am: Open source Brain / NeuroMLMonday 2 pm: Neuroscience Gateway Portal / NeuronTuesday 11 am: Brain Architecture Management Sy...

09:31am October 28, 2013
454 views
Data Spotlight

Using the Neuroscience Gateway Portal for Parallel SimulationsSymposia MeetingDate & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2013 8:30am - 10:30pmLocation: http://www.nsgportal.org/workshop.htmlSponsor Catego...

09:00am October 28, 2013
1059 views
Inside NIF, Data Spotlight, NIFarious Ideas

My thesis adviser, a colorful spirit and one whose wisdom will long be missed, used to say that undergraduate or professional students differed from graduate students in that they were asked to learn ...

10:15am November 7, 2013
916 views
Interoperability, Data Spotlight

I am very excited to share the following press release with the NIF community. Elsevier recommends authors to follow the Minimal Data StandardsAmsterdam, November 7, 2013Elsevier, a world-leading...

04:41pm October 14, 2013
466 views
Data Spotlight

Some surprising results this month for the top databases. Data, actually in its' relatively raw format seems to be crawling up the list for the first time. CRCNS, from UCBerkley, stores nervous system...

03:47pm September 24, 2013
683 views
Data Spotlight

It seems to be that time again, the time to find out which databases are most frequently accessed.(drum roll, please)The winner is: the NIF Registry, the database of databases. Does this mean that all...

12:14pm September 24, 2013
781 views
Webinar Announcement

October will kick off a NIF webinar series around the topic of Neuronal Computation. What is that you ask?Three rather remarkable and ambitious projects will be highlighted:On October 1st, Stephen Lar...

05:45am September 9, 2013
630 views
General information

Postdoctoral Research FellowsGeorge Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Fairfax, Va. (USA), invites applications for several Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions available imme...

01:51pm September 6, 2013
1003 views
Curation, Interoperability, NIFarious Ideas

The problem of reproducibility of results has been addressed by many groups, as being due to scientists having very large data sets and highlighting the interesting, yet most likely statistically anom...

06:53am September 4, 2013
634 views
News & Events, General information

The Neuroscience Information Framework is proud to support the BioCreative effort (http://www.biocreative.org) whose goal is bridging the gap between text mining and biocuration.One activity BioCreati...

03:09pm September 16, 2013
5577 views
Inside NIF

San Diego, Calif., Aug. 19, 2013 — Approximately 30 programmers from around the country gathered recently for an intensive, two-day Hack-a-thon to improve the University of California, San Diego’...

02:14am August 28, 2013
507 views
Data Spotlight

Over the last 30 days we have seen a lot of people search for databases, with the most common search term "database" and the database of databases.Most frequently accessed databases: NIF Registry Mod...

06:18pm July 19, 2013
625 views
Data Spotlight, NIFarious Ideas

At NIF we try to mix it up. Instead of bringing you the top databases this month, we thought that this may be of more interest.A heart-felt congratulations to the most annotated papers of all time! It...

04:48pm July 10, 2013
959 views
NIFarious Ideas, Curation, Interoperability, Force11, Data Spotlight

The NIH has had a recent request for information about the NIH data catalog to which our group and many others have responded. Many voices including fairly important ones from the white house are now ...

12:59pm July 16, 2013
1174 views
Force11, General information

A new editorial in the journal of Neuroinformatics points out that we should probably have a way of handling credit that is different from authorship.Traditionally, scientific authorship has been give...

11:02am July 3, 2013
1287 views
Force11, Data Spotlight, Inside NIF

It appears that the top search term is: database and the top database (no pun intended) is the Registry (of databases). Certainly a very interesting month.NIF RegistryNIF AnnotationsPodcastsOpen Sourc...

04:16pm June 24, 2013
1091 views
Force11, NIFarious Ideas

I recently asked a bench scientist about her experiences in publishing in this very new mode of scholarly communication, i.e. in F1000Research, which is open access, has an open review process and is ...

04:17pm June 13, 2013
1910 views
Data Spotlight, Inside NIF, NIFarious Ideas

NIF was asked to give the National Institutes on Drug Abuse a report of the state of the data holdings for one abused substance: Cannabis. The report is included below. The data reflect the state of N...

05:44am May 22, 2013
1425 views
News & Events, Force11

Scene: It is 4 am in the morning and the grant is due the next day. You have 12 pages to tell a story that will determine whether or not you can pay your salary and support your lab next year. Y...

04:32pm June 12, 2013
1157 views
Force11, Interoperability, Data Spotlight, Inside NIF

Believe it or not, there really is a project called open source brain, and it is a wonderful community of hackers that attempts to do very novel things with open source models, mainly in a format call...

10:29am May 14, 2013
529 views
News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

This is a question asked by Alan Alda, a tireless advocate for clear communication of science to the public. He has been the host of the PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers" for many years and h...

03:37pm May 3, 2013
399 views
Uncategorized

Last week Nature announced that they will change their policy regarding methods, including various gems like: * we will no longer make you publish another paper just to have a real methods section (th...

10:24am May 14, 2013
458 views
News & Events

*Stream Neuroscience, **VIII Summer School “Achievements and Applicationsof Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics” (AACIMP-2013)*The stream “Neuroscience” includes a broad range of...

10:30am May 14, 2013
1396 views
Force11, NIFarious Ideas

A number of groups, from libraries and universities and academic projects are striving to implement flexible data management systems in order to harness the latest and greatest in semantic web technol...

10:29am May 14, 2013
1097 views
Force11, Essays, News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

by Maryann E MartoneI was speaking with a colleague recently who, like many of us, had experienced the frustration of trying to support his on-line resources. He has assembled a comprehensive on-lin...

03:48pm April 17, 2013
424 views
News & Events

With support from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Amazon Web Services, and numerous other contributors, the 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) will in...

10:30am May 14, 2013
408 views
News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

...Well now you can.Two Planning Meetings: Public Access to Federally-Supported Research and Development Data andPublicationsNational Academy of SciencesMeetings are free and open to the public, but...

02:59pm April 4, 2013
607 views
News & Events

Call for applications:We invite applicants to the 2013 summer course in"Mining and modeling of neuroscience data" to be held July 15-26 at UC Berkeley.A description of the course is below and also at:...

09:39pm April 14, 2013
607 views
Inside NIF, News & Events

Its that time, we find out what have the users of NIF been searching for this month.Looks like antibodies and money are still winners, but some interesting things climbing to the top. The gene ontolog...

10:31am May 14, 2013
492 views
Force11, Inside NIF, News & Events

Although the pace of science often seems glacial, returning from the Beyond the PDF2 meeting, I have been struck at how much scientific publishing has changed in the last 18 months, since the first be...

05:12pm March 27, 2013
751 views
Data Spotlight, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Topic:\tBAMS - a workspace for macro-connectomes constructionDate/Time:\tMarch 26, 2013, 11 am PDT (2:00 Eastern Time)Presenter:\tMihail BotaRecording:\thttp://nif.adobeconnect.com/p89soa4hmrj/Descrip...

02:31pm March 15, 2013
393 views
Force11, Inside NIF, News & Events

Top 25 Databases:1.\tGrants.gov/Opportunity\t2.\tAntibodyRegistry/ABs\t3.\tBioNOT/Negation\t4.\tABCD/Brain Regions\t5.\tAmiGO/Genes\t6.\tBCBC/ABs\t7.\tBioGRID/Interactions\t8.\tNIF Registry/Info\t9.\t...

10:31am May 14, 2013
529 views
News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

This is a fun article about the injection of human stem cells into early mouse pups.The stem cells injected formed astrocytes that were more human like than mouse like and the outcome? Smarter mice. T...

10:31am May 14, 2013
415 views
News & Events

News from the Human Connectome Project (HCP)March 5, 2013The Human Connectome Project (HCP) WU-Minn consortium is pleased to announce our first quarterly release of HCP image and behavioral data. Rea...

03:25pm March 14, 2013
538 views
Force11, General information, News & Events

6th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics in Stockholm, Sweden August 27 - 29, 2013Call for abstract submissionsNeuroinformatics 2013 is now accepting abstracts, submission this year is hosted by Frontier...

12:17pm March 5, 2013
837 views
Data Spotlight, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Topic: \tThe Mouse Brain Architecture ProjectDate/Time: \tMarch 5, 2013; 11 am PDT (2:00 Eastern Time) - Recording is available at link belowPresenter: \tPartha MitraURL: \thttp://nif.adobeconnect.com...

11:46am March 3, 2013
491 views
News & Events, Force11, General information

Call for papers:*Frontiers in Neuroinformatics special topic *“Recent advances and thefuture generation of neuroinformatics infrastructure”Topic Editor(s): *Xi Cheng*, *Daniel R. Weinberger*, *Dan...

10:32am May 14, 2013
471 views
Force11, Inside NIF, News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

Dear electrophysiologists,If you could spare about 5 minutes of your time, the INCF electrophysiology task force is attempting to survey the landscape of definitions of the action potential. The main ...

09:21pm February 17, 2013
656 views
News & Events, Data Spotlight, Force11

Introduction to the Neuroscience Gateway WorkshopWhen: 10:00 - 12:00 PDT, 14 Mar, 2013This workshop introduces participants to the Neuroscience Gateway(NSG), which is being developed for the computat...

10:03am February 20, 2013
1049 views
Force11, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Please join us to discuss the future of scientific communication as seen by SAGE Bionetworks. Title: clearScience: Dragging Scientific Communication into the Information AgePresenter: Erich Huang &...

10:56am February 11, 2013
612 views
Data Spotlight, Inside NIF

Top 25 Databases of the month, show that once again people are mostly looking for funding, but antibodies are a close second. This month it looks like several sources of brain region information inclu...

Run parallel simulations via the Neuroscience Gateway!

Computational neuroscientists are invited to use the NeuroscienceGateway portal http://www.nsgportal.org (NSG) to run parallelsimulations on high performance computing (HPC) resources. We aredevelop...

09:29pm February 17, 2013
806 views
Force11, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

THIS WEBINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL BE RESCHEDULING IT SHORTLY. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.The next NIF webinar will highlight the features of NIF 5.0, the new light-weight interface, that all...

09:29pm February 17, 2013
391 views
Data Spotlight, News & Events

We are happy to announce the release of a new batch of collated rat connectivity data. BAMS now included more than 63K neuroanatomical reports, making it the best populated connectivity database. Othe...

09:30pm February 17, 2013
817 views
Uncategorized, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Please join NIF for the next webinar at the crossroads of neuroscience and informatics.Topic: The state of Macroconnectomes: what can these tell us about the nervous system?Date/Time: February 5, 2013...

09:25pm February 17, 2013
456 views
Data Spotlight, News & Events

Top 25 Databases:Grants.gov/OpportunityAntibodyRegistry/ABsBioNOT/NegationAllenInstitute/MouseBrainAtlasABCD/Brain RegionsNIF Registry/InfoAmiGO/GenesRePORTER/CurrentNIHGrantsBAMS/Brain RegionsNIF Int...

10:33am May 14, 2013
434 views
Force11, News & Events

We have data sharing sticks from NIH and NSF, but now there is a carrot from INCF. Good luck!Are you producing valuable data?Are you producing reusable data? INCF and One Mind for Research�...

10:33am May 14, 2013
1456 views
News & Events, Essays, Curation, Force11, Interoperability

by Anita Bandrowski,This may seem a silly question, but lets see if you are more like a fifth grader or more like me. It appears that a fifth grade class I recently interacted with can answer a questi...

A martyr for open access scientific publishing?

By Anita BandrowskiThis is not a blog post that I ever imagined writing. Likely many of you have heard that there has been a tragedy in that on January 11, 2013 a very talented young computer programm...

09:28pm February 17, 2013
368 views
Force11, News & Events

Registration for the next Beyond the PDF conference is now open. Participation in the conference is limited, so register early!About the conference:Scholarly communication across all disciplines...

10:33am May 14, 2013
1353 views
News & Events, Force11, Essays, NIFarious Ideas

by Maryann MartoneA recent post at the London School of Economics Social Science Impact blog on "Finding the time to blog" reminded me that I wanted to write a blog about why I started to blog. The u...

02:12pm December 14, 2012
777 views
Force11, News & Events

The faculty of 1000, has been a real leader in changing the structure of the peer review, and is in the process of launching several new journals including F1000Research that break the mold.Coincident...

11:10am December 13, 2012
437 views
News & Events

Dear colleaguesThe International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility is seeking a Scientific Program Officer to manage approximately 2 of its Programs (http://incf.org/programs). We are particularl...

Why does the NIH have to tell us how to conduct research?

by Anita BandrowskiDr. Landis, and the rest of the 'who-is-who-in-science' have recently published a paper (PMID:23060188) in Nature about the reporting practices in biological sciences. This follows ...

02:30pm December 17, 2012
530 views
Force11, News & Events

The organizers of the 3D Virtual Cell Conference cordially invite interested parties to attend the 3DVC Conference, held on December 13th - 14th, 2012 in San Diego. The conference will have live stre...

12:54pm November 27, 2012
768 views
Force11, Inside NIF, News & Events

The Society for Neuroscience meeting has come and gone and among my personal highlights was the Neuroinformatics social (the cell death social came in as a close second, but only because of the name)....

09:33am November 26, 2012
887 views
Uncategorized, Force11, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Topic:The Dataverse NetworkDate/Time:November 27, 2012 - 11:00 am PDT (2:00 Eastern Time)Presenter:Merce CrosasURL:http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinarThe Dataverse Network is an open-source repository ...

04:05pm November 19, 2012
421 views
News & Events

NeuroInformatics 2013Stockholm, Sweden | August 27 - 29The Program Committee of the 6th INCF Congress on Neuroinformatics encourages researchers of all neuroinformatics-related fields to submit propos...

10:33am May 14, 2013
708 views
News & Events, Force11, Interoperability

With the growth of scientist participation in blogging and social networks, a considerable amount of meritable scientific chatter is unfolding online. Several prominent blogs have emerged, in fact ...

10:34am May 14, 2013
611 views
Uncategorized, Force11, Interoperability, NIFarious Ideas

Dear biological database owners,We have attempted to let people know how to make databases more interoperable and discoverable, but this blog takes a very different take on the idea. The ideas brough...

08:58am October 5, 2012
358 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 Accessed Databases at NIF from Sept. 4 - Oct. 4, 2012.1. Grants.gov/Opportunity2. AntibodyRegistry/ABs3. BioNOT/Negation4. ABCD/Brain Regions5. AllenInstitute/MouseBrainA...

08:56am October 5, 2012
391 views
Uncategorized, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 Search Terms at NIF from Sept. 4 - Oct. 4, 2012.1. antibodyregistry2. database3. "DOMMINO - Database Of MacroMolecular INteractiOns"4. "Rhode Island Biobank"5. "Frontal L...

10:34am May 14, 2013
622 views
Force11, General information, News & Events

Hot off the press, from the desk of the Chancellor we just received a note about open access publishing that I would like to celebrate and share."Beginning this week, the University of California camp...

Should text books be open and free?

by Anita BandrowskiWe at NIF have recently discovered that Gov Brown (California) just signed into law a program that will create 50 lower division text books and a new library that will house them.Ma...

09:29am September 21, 2012
1100 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-conventionSponsored by the National Institute on Drug AbuseFriday, October 12, 2012Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal Street, New Orleans, LASeating is limited....

10:34am May 14, 2013
840 views
News & Events, Essays, Force11, NIFarious Ideas

The NIF team recently attended the Neuroinformatics Conference, held in Munich, Germany. The conference featured several lively discussions on the reproducibility problem in neuroscience (and neuroi...

10:34am May 14, 2013
1100 views
News & Events, Essays, Force11, NIFarious Ideas

A recent blog post by Dorothy Bishop on "How to bury your academic writing" came through this week that considers the question of the relative impact of book chapters vs published articles. She con...

10:35am May 14, 2013
563 views
NIFarious Ideas, Essays, Force11, News & Events

Thanks to PubMedCentral academics everywhere can read papers!!! This is a wonderful asset allowing scientists from all places, even academic backwaters like Harvard where libraries can no longer affor...

11:11pm August 18, 2012
536 views
News & Events

iDASH NLP Annotation WorkshopWhen: Saturday, September 29, 2012 (All day)Where: Atkinson Hall, Calit2 Auditorium, University of California, San DiegoThe goals of the workshop are to explore practi...

10:35am May 14, 2013
1019 views
Curation, Force11, Interoperability

In the Neuroscience Information Framework (http://neuinfo.org), we often tout the importance of using unique identifiers rather than text strings as a way to ensure that search engines like NIF can mi...

02:30pm August 10, 2012
527 views
General information, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Dr. Anita Bandrowski as she discusses NIF 4.5.The following i...

11:26am July 31, 2012
440 views
General information, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Tom Hawkins as he discusses Zebrafishbrain.org: developing a c...

10:25am July 12, 2012
343 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF from June 11 to July 11:1. antibodyregistry2. database3. "Cingulate Cortex"4. �...

10:20am July 12, 2012
464 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 Access Databases at NIF from June 11 to July 11:1. Grants.gov/Opportunity2. GENSAT/GENSAT3. CCDB/All Information4....

09:58am May 21, 2013
901 views
Inside NIF, Curation

Over the past 4 years, the Neuroscience Information Framework systematically scanned the literature, internet and social buzz for all things neuroscience (& biomedical science). This tedious bookk...

12:04pm June 7, 2012
370 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 Accessed Databases at NIF for May 20121. Grants.gov/Opportunity2. CCDB/All Information3. SumsDB/Activation Foci4. AntibodyRegistry/Abs5. BrainInfo/Brain Region6. GENSAT...

04:46pm May 30, 2012
383 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Drs. Niels van Strien and Natalie Cappaert as they discuss...

12:03pm June 7, 2012
378 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for May 2012:1. database2. antibodyregistry3. receptive field4. "Dorsal Trigeminal Tract”5. "Frontal Lobe"6. cerebellum7. "Drug Related Gene Datab...

11:12am May 14, 2012
495 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 accessed databases at NIF for April 2012:1. Grants.gov/Opportunity2. AntibodyRegistry/ABs3. CCDB/All Information4....

10:24am May 7, 2012
378 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for April 2012:1. antibodyregistry2. Database OR Databases OR "Database resource" OR "Data base3. field AND receptive4. EEGbase5. Cerebellum6. openf...

03:55pm May 2, 2012
453 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Dr. Russell Poldrack as he discusses Cognitive Atlas.The fo...

11:09am May 23, 2012
439 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please Bradley Voytek as he discusses Automated Cognome Construction...

08:58pm April 26, 2012
639 views
Uncategorized, General information, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Drs. Angie Laird & Jessica Turner as they discuss the Mind Re...

08:55pm April 26, 2012
357 views
Uncategorized, News & Events, General information

Hello everyone,The recent webinar held on April 24, 2012 about mental functioning ontology is now available in the webinar archives on the NIF site.You can also see the webinar here.The Neuroscience I...

02:19pm April 16, 2012
326 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for the week of April 8, 2012:\tantibodyregistry\tCerebellum\tDatabase OR Databases OR “Database resource" OR "Data base"\tHippocampus OR "ammon horn" OR "Amm...

02:16pm April 16, 2012
319 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 accessed databases for NIF for the week of April 8, 2012:1. Grants.gov/Opportunity2. SumsDB/Activation Foci3. Anti...

01:15pm May 8, 2012
303 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

If you missed today's NIF Webinar by Russell Poldrack on the Cognitive Atlas, you can still enjoy all the fun!NIF Webinars are routinely recorded and made available to the entire neuroscience communit...

11:54am April 16, 2012
354 views
Uncategorized, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Hello everyone,Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Dr. Gwen Frishkoff as she discusses Harmonizing the Repr...

02:58pm April 23, 2012
339 views
Uncategorized, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Hello everyone.Please mark your calendars.The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Janna Hastings as she discusses Mental Functioning Ont...

12:59pm April 13, 2012
312 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for the week of April 9, 2012:1. Antibody Registry2. Cerebellum3. Neuron4. Frontal lobe5. Loyola University Medical Center Hines VA Brain Bank6. Bioinformatics7...

04:32pm March 21, 2012
332 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Hello,NIF 4.1 has been released, as of March 21, 2012. We hope you find the new features helpful as we continue to improve upon and expand our efforts. You may find release notes on the site.As wi...

03:43pm March 20, 2012
334 views
General information, Uncategorized, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 searches in NIF for March 2012:\tdatabase\t"Frontal Lobe"\t"Cingulate Cortex"\tPDBFG\t"Hair Cell"\t"Purkinje Cell"\tcerebellum\tantibodyregistry\t"Brainstem"\t"Fusiform Gyrus"\t"Ba...

12:48pm April 13, 2012
274 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

1.Grants.gov/Opportunity2.AntibodyRegistry/ABs3.SumsDB/Activation Foci4.CCDB/All Information5.ResearchCrossroads/Grants6.GENSAT/GENSAT7.ClinicalTrials/ClinTr8.OneMind/BioBanks9.NIF Integrated Podcast/...

10:47am May 14, 2013
435 views
Data Spotlight, Essays, General information, News & Events, Force11

The Representation of Gender in NIF's Data Holdings - Click the link to go to the full PDF document, which includes at the end an interactive chart.The following is the full document, complete with im...

02:57pm February 24, 2012
430 views
Uncategorized, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 accessed databases in NIF for February 2012.\tGrantsgov/Opportunity\tSumsDB/Activation Foci\tCCDB/All Information\tAntibodyRegistry/Abs\tGENSAT/GENSAT\tResearchCros...

02:54pm February 24, 2012
285 views
Uncategorized, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 searches in NIF for February 2012.\tCingulate Cortex\tDrug Related Gene Database\tEntorhinal Cortex\tFrontal Lobe\tPurkinje Cell\tCe...

08:37am October 5, 2012
319 views
News & Events

Neuroinformatics and Genomics Social at SfNChair: David N. Kennedy; Maja BucanLocation: Hilton Riverside: JasperwoodSunday, October 14, 2012, 6:45 PM-8:45 PMSocial with Brief Presentation (i.e. Most...

03:43pm March 20, 2012
299 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 accessed databases for March 2012:\tImages\tBrain Regions\tConnectivity\tAntibodies\tNIF Literature\tDataset\tSoftware\tDisease\tAnimals\tDrugs\tGrants\tMicroarray\tPeople\tPlasmid...

09:26am January 31, 2012
754 views
General information, News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone,The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 11:00 am PST. Please join Carlo Quinonez as he discusses Open Hardware in Science: Benefits and Challenges.The fol...

03:34pm January 13, 2012
373 views
Uncategorized, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

Here are the top 25 accessed databases at NIF for January 2012:1. Grants.gov/Opportunity2. CCDB/All Information3. SumsDB/Activation Foci4. ResearchCrossroads/Grants5. AntibodyRegistry/ABs6. GENSAT/GEN...

08:43am January 31, 2012
461 views
General information, News & Events

Material taken from UCSD University Communications and Public Affairs News Center, January 25, 2012.Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, ...

03:19pm January 13, 2012
366 views
Uncategorized, General information, News & Events

Here are the top 25 Searches at NIF for January 2012.1. database2. Images3. antibodyregistry4. Brain Regions5. Brain Activation Foci6. Cingulate Cortex7. Drugs8. Multimedia9. Animals10. Alzheimer's11...

04:01pm December 14, 2011
434 views
General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

We are pleased to announce the release of NIF v4.0, which went live during the week of December 5th, 2011. NIF v4.0 has a number of features that improve overall performance of the Neuroscience Inform...

10:35am January 10, 2012
503 views
General information, News & Events

Hello,A training workshop is being offered at UCSD for the Allen Brain Atlas. "Using the Allen Brain Atlas Online Public Resources" will feature a training workshop on the Allen Brain Atlas onli...

03:05pm December 12, 2011
395 views
Uncategorized, Data Spotlight, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

What are people looking for at NIF? As the year draws to a close, we bring you the NIF Top 10.The NIF Top 10 Categories for December 2011 are....\tNervous System Level:Multi-Level\tNervous System Le...

03:06pm December 12, 2011
323 views
Uncategorized, Data Spotlight, General information, Inside NIF, News & Events

As the year ends, we begin a new series of posts, the NIF Top 10.Here are the Top 10 Searches at NIF for December 2011\tcerebellum\t"Purkinje Cell"\t"Diencephalon"\tantibodyregistry\thippocampus\t"Bra...

12:16pm October 27, 2011
359 views
News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone,The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Tal Yarkoni as he discusses the NeuroSynth framework.The following is a description of ...

RSS Feed

Log in

Leaving Community

About

Community Resources

More Resources

Literature

Log in

Blog

Search

Recent Posts