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What is the Cerebral Cortex?

10:33am May 14, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...

02:21pm October 7, 2011
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General information, News & Events

In a recent article from Nature, and subsequent discussions (here and there), it is argued that a "growing chorus of scientists" would like to see more standardization of data so that sorting through...

10:05am August 15, 2012
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News & Events, Force11

In this challenge, a full stack of EM slices will be used to train machine learning algorithms for the purpose of automatic segmentation of neural structures.Anybody can participate in the challeng...

12:23pm October 6, 2011
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News & Events

President Barack Obama will soon honor University of California, San Diego Bioengineering Professor Shu Chien in a White House ceremony for the seven eminent researchers to receive the National Medal ...

03:22pm October 10, 2011
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Webinar Announcement, General information, News & Events

Hello everyone,The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz as he discusses Search Engine Optimization (...

02:29pm October 18, 2011
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone,The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Jesse Brown as he discusses The UCLA Multimodal Connectivity Database.The following is ...

12:22pm October 6, 2011
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News & Events

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified more than 70 genes that play a role in regenerating nerves after injury, providing biomedical researchers with a valuable set of ...

02:36pm October 4, 2011
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News & Events

Technology Conference and Society will be held at University of California, Los Angeles, USA from 16-18 January. This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fiel...

10:02am October 3, 2011
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News & Events

DSC Host Largest Academic Cloud Sep 26, 2011 The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has launched what it claims is thelargest academic-based cloud storage...

03:30pm September 29, 2011
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News & Events

Stampede Charges Computational Science Forward in Tackling Complex Societal Challenges Sep 26, 2011 The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin announced on Se...

05:37pm September 22, 2011
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News & Events

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (ISSN 2162-3309), a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe...

03:11pm September 2, 2011
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General information, News & Events

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) Conference has put out a Call for Papers. The deadline for abstracts is October 15, 2011.The conference will take place April 2-4, 2012 in Washington,...

10:30am October 3, 2011
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News & Events

Hello everyone,The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT. Please join Brian Canada as he discusses Crowdsourcing the Zebrafish Phenome P...

10:47am May 14, 2013
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Essays, News & Events, Force11

It is likely that many of the members of SFN have read a bit of text when applying for NSF or NIH grants that states "thou shalt share thine data". Actually the statements are here:NSF Data Sharing Po...

03:05pm September 2, 2011
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General information, News & Events

In the August 19, 2011 issue, Nature News highlighted Science Exchange and featured an interview with the founder, Elizabeth Iorns. Science Exchange allows researchers to outsource their research to ...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

As we push forward integrating neuroscience resources, literature & data - we are always looking for novel, helpful and exciting neuroscience related content to integrate within the semantically-e...

04:06pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

NIF Webinar - June 21st, 2011"Ontology-based Analysis of Human Brain Activity; Recent work in the Development & Application of NEMO" was presented by Dr. Gwen Frishkoff, the Director of the NEMO c...

04:06pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

This weeks featured NIFarious Idea is the Universe Sandbox, a game-like, yet educational interactive space simulator.Available for download on Windows PCs only, the Universe Sandbox lets you "play god...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

Researcher's at the University of Nottingham recently sent C. elegans, a popular animal model, into space on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Why?Well, to learn about how Space effects gene transcription ...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

Using a silicon wafer with adhesion proteins, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have opened a new window to study prolonged neuronal activity - particularly that behind memory formation.Abov...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

After the success of Inside NIF: The Cell: An Image Library - mobile phone wallpapers, we have decided once again to comb The Cell: An Image Library for exciting and interesting neuroscience images fo...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

There are tens of thousands of different biological pathways and each pathway involves complex sets of protein-protein interactions, small molecules, protein comple...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

Pictures have taken over painting, mosaics and caricatures have proliferated insidiously so what then can the modern lord or baron do to impress his friends? I introduce you to the very NIFARIOUS: DN...

04:06pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

Last week, we had a look at PubMedHealth: Drug but this was just scratching the surface of this resourse. PubMedHealth holds a wide spectrum of information to aid scientists in research. In this blo...

04:06pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is an another database of NCBI that holds gene expression information. It international public repository that archives and freely distributes microarray, next-generation...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

In previous blog post, we have looked at NCBI's Entrez: Gene. This week we will be take a look at another component of NCBI, PubMedHealth: Drug. PubMed Health offers up-to-date information on diseas...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

In this presentation, Discovery: First Scientifically Confirmed Poisonous Bird, Dr. Jack Dumbacher explains the discovery of the first poisonous birds - the hooded pitohui, native to New Guinea.Poss...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, Data Spotlight

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a national institute under the National Library of Medicine which holds vast amounts of biological data. Entrez is an web portal or federate...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

In previous blog post, we have talked about the importance of C. elegans, or Caenorhabditis elegans, and how its genomic information can be accessed through Wormbase: Genes. In this blog post, we will...

04:06pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

The goal of the AntibodyRegistry is to provide a stable, traceable, permanent identifier to all antibody products created by large commercial vendors and individual labs that can be included in any pu...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

There is virtually an app for everything these days. Yes, that statement hold true for cancer diagnosis. Using a cell phone and a lunch box- sized machine, a team from Harvard Medical School was able ...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

I recently came across an interesting blog post titled "Is Academia Eating Its Young", written by Bill Benzon. The main focus revolves around blogging in the academic community, particularly that ther...

04:05pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

The Cell: An Image Library is a public and easily accessible resource database of images, videos, and animations of cells. It captures a wide range of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes in ...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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NIFarious Ideas, News & Events

At the Neuroscience Information Framework, we are always keeping an eye on the latest and greatest in data visualization techniques. One classic data visualization is the tag cloud, which illustrates ...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

The Cell: An Image Library™ is a open, easy to use repository of high-quality images, videos and animations of cells. Given their efforts to semantically annotate uploaded images, non-scientist use...

04:02pm December 9, 2011
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NIFarious Ideas, News & Events

This weeks NIFarious Ideas features is Sketch2Photo, an internet montage composer and is truly remarkable. The researcher team out of Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, has ...

04:01pm December 9, 2011
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NIFarious Ideas, News & Events

Unlike most major technology companies, Google is particularly known for pulling annual April Fool's days pranks as well as venturing into uncharted waters. This weeks NIFarious Idea, Google Cow, is n...

04:01pm December 9, 2011
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

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 o...

04:01pm December 9, 2011
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NIFarious Ideas, News & Events

A study recently published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, performed here at UCSD in the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience by Tzyy-Ping Jung and his team demonstrates a proof-of-conce...

04:01pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

Don't we all! These days it seems as if everyone is in need of funding, including the almost closed federal government! In our line of business, funding is a requirement but obtaining funding require...

04:03pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

C. elegans, or Caenorhabditis elegans, is a one of the most popular model organism used in biomedical research. Transparency, ability to be frozen, and easy and cheap breeding all make C. elegans an i...

04:02pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

"A picture is worth more than a thousand words". This idea applies to neuroscience and emphasizes the importance of visualization in science. With one image, it is possible to easily extract informati...

04:02pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

We have talked about ZIRC, Zebrafish International Resource Center, in NIF blog before (ZIRC Data Spotlight). ZIFN, Zebrafish Model Organism Database, is a sister organization of ZIRC. ZIRC provides...

04:02pm December 9, 2011
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Webinar Announcement

04:02pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

Finding a working antibody for your proteins of interest can be a difficult process. Similar antibodies are available from a number of different antibody providers and depending on which vendor your o...

10:01am April 5, 2011
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News & Events

Neuroinformatics 2011: Boston, Sept 4 - 6Call for Abstracts! - www.neuroinformatics2011.orgAbstract submission is open. Please note the submission deadline - April 19.INCF is an international organiza...

04:01pm December 9, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

The NIF development team is currently investigating new ways to implement keywords and weighting schemas in a individual database fashion. Doing so could potentially lead to significant improvements ...

04:01pm December 9, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

The Allen Mouse Brain Atlas is an interactive, genome-wide image database of gene expression. The Neuroscience Information Framework returns quantitative expression values on a gene by brain region b...

04:04pm March 29, 2011
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Inside NIF, News & Events

The Neuroscience Information Framework currently contains millions of unique data records. After your first search, you may be overwhelmed by the scope of the search results. This Inside NIF post prov...

02:00pm April 11, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

The Aging Genes Database, provided out of the University of Washington, contains information on genes and interventions that have been studied in respect to their effects on life-span or age-related n...

10:59am April 4, 2011
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Data Spotlight, News & Events

For a number of reasons, the use of zebrafish in neuroscience research is steadily on the rise. At the Neuroscience Information Framework, we have recognized this trend and have active lines of commun...

05:27pm March 31, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

A group at Microsoft Research Cambridge has developed a new search tool for the human body. The project, InnerEye, led by Antonio Criminisi, performs automated analysis of CT scans using machine learn...

12:54pm March 22, 2011
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Webinar Announcement

02:33pm March 10, 2011
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News & Events, NIFarious Ideas

As an enterprise, science exists to collect objective data from the natural world, a job opportunity afforded to science by the innate fallacies of the human brain, according to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyso...

10:47am May 14, 2013
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News & Events, Essays, Force11

For the better part of the last 200 years, scientists and researchers have been honing the process of publishing scientific articles by carefully citing the people and ideas leading up to their own th...

04:36pm June 10, 2011
409 views
Webinar Announcement

10:55am March 28, 2011
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Neuroscience Information framework, Data Spotlight, addgene, plasmid, News & Events

We have all been there before. Whether learning or re-learning the basic biology of DNA plasmids, figuring out the best plasmid for your line of research can be a difficult task. This week's feature...

04:36pm June 10, 2011
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Webinar Announcement

01:13pm January 26, 2011
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Webinar Announcement

10:08am January 6, 2011
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Webinar Announcement

Hello everyone,The next NIF Webinar is scheduled for Tuesday January 11, 2011. Please join our own Dr. Anita Bandrowski as we explore DRG - the Drug Related Gene Database. Funded by ...

02:36pm December 17, 2010
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General information, News & Events

Is your data playing hide and seek, ever elusive and just out of reach? Are you looking for something and not finding it? Ask a question in the new NIF Forum.We are confident that most of the time...

12:06pm December 15, 2010
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News & Events

On December 7th, 2010, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. announced the launch of Digital Science (http://www.digital-science.com/), a new division of the company and a new kind of scientific information enter...

11:54am December 14, 2010
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News & Events

The annual INCF Neuroinformatics Congress provides a meeting place for researchers in all fields related to neuroinformatics, including data- and knowledge-bases of the nervous system from molecular t...

02:33pm December 3, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

10:44pm November 25, 2010
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General information, News & Events

Are you looking for something? While NIF may not be able to help you find the meaning of life, we can help you find neuroscience-relevant data, tools or materials. If the NIF search portal doesn’t...

02:58pm November 16, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

05:25pm November 5, 2010
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News & Events

This solicitation addresses the challenges of creating a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique opportunities to c...

06:12pm November 4, 2010
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News & Events

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., the leading publisher in Biotechnology, announced this week about their new peer-reviewed journal called Brain Connectivity. Expected to launch in the spring, this new journal...

11:19am February 23, 2011
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News & Events

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is participating in this year's Neuroscience 2010, the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which will be held November 13–17, 2010 in ...

05:28pm November 3, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

06:03pm October 4, 2010
455 views
News & Events

The National Science Foundation (NSF), the major support agency for all basic research fields in the U.S., is in process of making changes to its data-sharing policy. What this means for researchers a...

12:06pm September 30, 2010
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News & Events

On Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 from 5pm to 7:30pm PST, NIF will experience an outage due to schedule network maintenance. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. If you experience...

10:47am May 14, 2013
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Essays, Curation, General information, Force11

Publishing papers is one of the mainstays of scientific discourse. Many of us worry about the impact factor of journals, how many times we have been cited, ease of access to our papers. The the ma...

03:34pm August 4, 2010
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News & Events, NIF, Neuroscience Information framework, Neuroscience resources, General information

NIF releases version 2.6 of its search portal. This is a minor release and the main features of this release include:- On-the-fly plotting of Activation Foci found in the NIF search results on to the ...

10:47am May 14, 2013
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Curation, Essays, Curation, General information, Essays, General information, Force11

By Anita Bandrowski, Ph.D.Humanity began writing on stone and clay tablets, and then moved to papyrus, paper, and now we write with electrons. Does it seem that our media for information storage is ...

04:36pm June 25, 2010
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News & Events

The CCDB just released 3 beautiful large scale brain mosaics detailing the distribution of plasma membrane calcium-dependent ATPases in rat brain published in the study by Kenyon et al. (Journal of ...

09:23am June 3, 2010
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News & Events

An informative session and demonstration on the usage of NIF will be held this Friday, June 4th, 2010. Please join us to learn strategies on finding software tools, reagents, ko-mice, and data!Date ...

10:45am May 27, 2010
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News & Events

The German INCF Node in Munich will be covering "Neuroinformatics: Linking Brain Research from Physiology to Models" at their next symposium held on June 17.The symposium will feature a number of exci...

12:03pm July 2, 2010
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News & Events

The NIH Meeting on Informatics for Data and Resource Discovery in Addiction Research will be held from July 8 - 9, 2010. It will be held at the Neuroscience Center Building - Conference Room C and D ...

01:01pm June 2, 2010
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News & Events

The Bioimage Informatics 2010 will be held from September 17 to19 at the new Gates and Hillman Centers of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.It will bring together research...

NIF Webinar – May 11, 2010 / Topic: Features of the New NIF 2.5

10:47am May 14, 2013
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Curation, General information, Essays, Force11

That’s an easy one, with all due respect to our former president. As far as the NIF is concerned, “IS” is the inferior salivatory nucleus. How do we know?Perform a search in NIF and you will...

10:19am April 16, 2010
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General information, News & Events

NIF Version 2.5 is now released. Please visit the list of top features.Please provide your valuable feedback by sending an email to support@neuinfo.org. Thank you....

09:49pm December 10, 2010
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News & Events

The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) is an international organization devoted to advancing the field of neuroinformatics. The annual INCF Neuroinformatics Congress provi...

NIF Webinar – June 15, 2010 / Topic: URLs and URIs

10:28am April 7, 2010
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News & Events

The XNAT Workshop 2010 will be held from June 28 - 30. It will provide an opportunity for XNAT site administrators and developers to deepen their understanding of the XNAT system. The Workshop will ...

NIF Webinar – April 6, 2010 / Topic: Preview of NIF 2.5 Release

11:54am March 23, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

03:47pm March 15, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

RESCHEDULED NIF Webinar – March 9, 2010 / Topic: Using LinkOut Broker, A NIF Service

04:42pm February 26, 2010
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News & Events

We are pleased to announce the new release of NIFSTD 1.7. Please visit http://purl.org/nif/ontology/nif.owl to access the owl file.Major changes of this release include:\tRetirement of OBO-UBO layer: ...

01:17pm January 27, 2010
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General information

The fourth issue of the INCF Newsletter of 2009 is now available.This INCF Newsletter features:\t information on INCF and INCF Node activities\tphotos from the INCF booth at the SfN Neuroscience 2009 ...

12:16pm January 27, 2010
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News & Events

NIF Version 2.1 has been released. This minor release includes the following improvements:\tResolved issues of multiple scroll bars by using a new layout scheme for the results page\tFixed the bug rel...

04:10pm February 3, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

02:26pm January 13, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Defining Adulthood

THE PROBLEMAdulthood, like many terms we use for describing data, is a very poorly defined and a somewhat arbitrary concept. When does an organism become an adult? The answer in general would be “it...

12:56pm January 22, 2010
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General information, Curation

How does NIF represent neurons, the basic unit of information processing in the brain?Each class organized by NIF is a concatenation of a brain region and known cell type. Cell type is determined by a...

03:18pm December 22, 2009
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News & Events, General information

On December 15, NIF conducted a Webinar featuring the MIREOT tool. For those of you who missed the Webinar, we have an archive of all our past Webinars available at http://www.neuinfo.org/webinars/a...

02:21pm January 13, 2010
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a biweekly Webinar series ontopics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in buildingthe NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as ...

03:44pm November 16, 2009
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General information, News & Events

It has been a month since the release of NIF 2.0, but we want to know -- What do you think of NIF 2.0? Do you know of the changes made? We created a short presentation of the improvements incorporated...

03:07pm November 16, 2009
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Webinar Announcement, News & Events

Hello everybody! The next NIF Webinar is scheduled for November 17, 2009. Please join Sridevi Polavaram from George Mason University for an informative and interactive session about Cell Ontology. Det...

02:22pm October 16, 2009
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News & Events

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is participating in this year's Neuroscience 2009, the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 17– 21, 2009 in Chicago at the McCo...

02:22pm October 16, 2009
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News & Events

During the Neuroscience 2009 conference, the Lab of Neuroinformatics at RIKEN BSI will demonstrate the enhancements of their Web-accessible tool, "Related Abstract Search." For more information, ple...

03:09pm October 16, 2009
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News & Events

Today, NIF's satellite event will include a workshop focused on two main topics.\tIntroduction to data/resource sharing and discovery: This session will focus on resources available for helping you sh...

02:20pm October 16, 2009
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News & Events

Join us on Monday, October 19, 2009 from 6:30-9:00 pm for Neuroscience 2.0 - Networking data, tools, and people.This exciting social gathering will be held at the Chicago Hilton in the Lake Erie Room ...

10:04am October 12, 2009
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

NIF will be attending this year's Neuroscience 2009 conference in Chicago, IL, from October 17 - 21. Because of that, there will be a slight delay in the NIF Webinar schedule.The next NIF Webinar wi...

10:48am May 14, 2013
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Essays, Curation, Force11

Benefits and pitfalls of integration of two very different data types, by Dr. Anita Bandrowski, NIF CuratorOverview of NIF registration processes and the role of DISCO:The Neuroscience Information Fra...

12:01pm October 7, 2009
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Webinar Announcement, News & Events

The next NIF Webinar will be held on August 18, 2009. Please join Dr. Anita Bandrowski for our next informative session. Details follow.Date: August 18, 2009 / 11:00 - 12:00 noon PDTTopic: NIF Resou...

10:48am May 14, 2013
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Interoperability, News & Events, Force11

As part of the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), we provide access to data contained in databases and structured web resources (e.g. queryable web services), sometimes referred to as the deep ...

12:02pm October 7, 2009
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News & Events

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12:02pm October 7, 2009
980 views
Uncategorized, News & Events

We will be hosting our next bi-weekly Webinar on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Details are as follows:Please join us in a Connect Pro Meeting.Meeting Name: Neuroscience Information Framework WebinarTopic: U...

12:02pm October 7, 2009
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Uncategorized, News & Events

The Neuroscience Information Framework was updated on May 29, 2009, with the addition of two more databases. Exact Antigen and Allen Mouse Brain Atlas were added to the existing federation of databa...

12:02pm October 7, 2009
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Uncategorized, News & Events

We will be hosting our next bi-weekly Webinar on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Details are as follows:Please join us in a Connect Pro Meeting.Meeting Name: Neuroscience Information Framework WebinarTopic: Ne...

12:02pm October 7, 2009
969 views
Uncategorized, News & Events

The Neuroscience Information Framework is pleased to present the first NIF Webinar, on May 12, 2009 from 10:45 am to 12:45 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -0700).To access the NIF Webinar, dial-in at 8...

02:15pm October 16, 2009
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Neuroscience Information framework, Neuroscience resources, Neuroinformatics, NIF, Neuroscience, General information, News & Events

We’re glad that you’re here. The Neuroscience Information Framework project is a community portal for neuroscience researchers (although everyone is welcome) that provides the means and access to...

03:18pm October 23, 2009
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News & Events, Webinar Announcement

Greetings! The next NIF Webinar is scheduled for October 27, 2009. Please join Dr. Finn Aarup Nielsen for an informative session about the Brede tools. Details below.Date: October 27, 2009 / 11:00 �...

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