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NIF Data Spotlight: Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT)
- 04:02pm December 9, 2011
- 504 views
- 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...
NIF Data Spotlight: Zebrafish Model Organism Database (ZFIN)
- 04:02pm December 9, 2011
- 709 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – April 12, 2011 / Topic: DISCO Service
- 04:02pm December 9, 2011
- 356 views
- 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...
Inside NIF: Looking for Antibodies?
- 04:02pm December 9, 2011
- 374 views
- 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...
Neuroinformatics 2011 Sep 4 - 6, Call for Abstracts
- 10:01am April 5, 2011
- 338 views
- 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...
Inside NIF: Keywords & Weighting Scheme
- 04:01pm December 9, 2011
- 341 views
- 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 ...
NIF Data Spotlight: Allen Brain Atlas
- 04:01pm December 9, 2011
- 437 views
- 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...
Inside NIF: Working with Search Results
- 04:04pm March 29, 2011
- 429 views
- 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...
NIF Data Spotlight: Aging Gene Database
- 02:00pm April 11, 2011
- 577 views
- 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...
NIF Data Spotlight: Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC)
- 10:59am April 4, 2011
- 519 views
- 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...
NIFarious Ideas: Improving Medical Imaging with Search Technologies
- 05:27pm March 31, 2011
- 499 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – March 29, 2011 / Topic: KEfED, Knowledge Engineering from Experimental Design
- 12:54pm March 22, 2011
- 395 views
- 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...
NIFarious Ideas: Science collects data, the Brain improvises
- 02:33pm March 10, 2011
- 412 views
- 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...
The Factorial Problem in the Annotation of the Scientific Paper
- 10:47am May 14, 2013
- 499 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – February 15, 2011 / Topic: NRCI - Neuron Registry Curator Interface
- 04:36pm June 10, 2011
- 375 views
- 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...
NIF Data Spotlight: AddGene - What was that plasmid?
- 10:55am March 28, 2011
- 669 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – March 15, 2011 / Topic: The SWAN Annotation Tool and Annotation Ontology
- 04:36pm June 10, 2011
- 404 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – February 1, 2011 / Topic: NIF 3.0
- 01:13pm January 26, 2011
- 474 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar - January 11, 2011 / Topic: DRG - Drug Related Gene Database
- 10:08am January 6, 2011
- 367 views
- 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 ...
Participate in the new NIF Forum
- 02:36pm December 17, 2010
- 441 views
- 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...
Macmillan announces launch of Digital Science
- 12:06pm December 15, 2010
- 494 views
- 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...
Neuroinformatics 2011
- 11:54am December 14, 2010
- 383 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – December 7, 2010 / Topic: NeuroMorpho.Org
- 02:33pm December 3, 2010
- 494 views
- 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...
Join the NIF Forum!
- 10:44pm November 25, 2010
- 498 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – November 23, 2010 / Topic: Integrating Digital Atlases of Rodent Brain: the INCF Waxholm Space and Atlas Service
- 02:58pm November 16, 2010
- 468 views
- 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...
Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)
- 05:25pm November 5, 2010
- 413 views
- 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...
New Brain Connectivity Journal Launches in Spring
- 06:12pm November 4, 2010
- 455 views
- 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...
NIF at Neuroscience 2010
- 11:19am February 23, 2011
- 496 views
- 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 ...
NIF Webinar – October 5, 2010 / Topic: Internet Brain Volume Database
- 05:28pm November 3, 2010
- 469 views
- 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...
New NSF Data-Sharing Policy
- 06:03pm October 4, 2010
- 407 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...
Upcoming NIF Outage on October 5th
- 12:06pm September 30, 2010
- 390 views
- 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...
Supplementary material: Can NIF bring order to the netherworld of publishing?
- 10:47am May 14, 2013
- 927 views
- 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...
NIF 2.6 Released
- 03:34pm August 4, 2010
- 611 views
- 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 ...
If a Tree Falls In The Digital Forest, Does It Make a Sound?
- 10:47am May 14, 2013
- 908 views
- 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 ...
CCDB adds beautiful data set
- 04:36pm June 25, 2010
- 440 views
- 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 ...
Live Session with NIF - June 4, 2010 / Topic: Introduction to NIF
- 09:23am June 3, 2010
- 545 views
- 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 ...
German INCF Node Symposium
- 10:45am May 27, 2010
- 512 views
- 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...
NIH Meeting on Informatics for Data and Resource Discovery in Addiction Research
- 12:03pm July 2, 2010
- 623 views
- 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 ...
The Bioimage Informatics 2010
- 01:01pm June 2, 2010
- 544 views
- 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
- 10:56am May 4, 2010
- 679 views
- 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...
The Meaning of "Is"
- 10:47am May 14, 2013
- 658 views
- 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...
NIF 2.5 Now Released
- 10:19am April 16, 2010
- 492 views
- 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....
Neuroinformatics 2010
- 09:49pm December 10, 2010
- 513 views
- 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
- 02:39pm June 9, 2010
- 515 views
- Webinar Announcement, News & Events
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...
XNAT Workshop 2010
- 10:28am April 7, 2010
- 860 views
- 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
- 10:29am April 7, 2010
- 505 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – March 30, 2010 / Topic: NIF as a Multi-Model Semantic Information System Part 1: Relational, XML, RDF and OWL models
- 11:54am March 23, 2010
- 780 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – March 23, 2010 / Topic: Progress on the ODIE Toolkit
- 03:47pm March 15, 2010
- 782 views
- 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...
RESCHEDULED NIF Webinar – March 9, 2010 / Topic: Using LinkOut Broker, A NIF Service
- 02:41pm March 5, 2010
- 532 views
- 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...
NIF Standard Ontologies NIFSTD 1.7 Released
- 04:42pm February 26, 2010
- 730 views
- 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: ...
NIF with INCF
- 01:17pm January 27, 2010
- 580 views
- 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 ...
NIF Version 2.1 Released
- 12:16pm January 27, 2010
- 599 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar - February 9, 2010 / Topic: Defined versus Asserted Classes
- 04:10pm February 3, 2010
- 621 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – January 19, 2010 / Topic: NCBO Annotator
- 02:26pm January 13, 2010
- 735 views
- 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...
Defining Adulthood
- 10:48am May 14, 2013
- 4269 views
- Curation, General information, Force11
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...
Representing Neurons
- 12:56pm January 22, 2010
- 494 views
- 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...
MIREOT - Recent NIF Webinar
- 03:18pm December 22, 2009
- 730 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – December 15, 2009 / Topic: MIREOT Tool
- 02:21pm January 13, 2010
- 601 views
- 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 ...
Share Your Thoughts on NIF 2.0
- 03:44pm November 16, 2009
- 552 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar – November 17, 2009 / Topic: Cell Ontology
- 03:07pm November 16, 2009
- 847 views
- 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...
NIF at Neuroscience 2009
- 02:22pm October 16, 2009
- 725 views
- 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...
New "Related Abstract Search" Tool
- 02:22pm October 16, 2009
- 714 views
- 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...
Neuroscience Satellite Event
- 03:09pm October 16, 2009
- 745 views
- 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...
NIF Social Gathering!
- 02:20pm October 16, 2009
- 725 views
- 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 ...
Brede database Webinar - October 27, 2009
- 10:04am October 12, 2009
- 924 views
- 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...
Professional vs. self-curation
- 10:48am May 14, 2013
- 6357 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar - August 18, 2009 - 11:00-12:00 noon PDT
- 12:01pm October 7, 2009
- 819 views
- 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...
Four Things You Can Do to Make Your Database More Interoperable
- 10:48am May 14, 2013
- 1350 views
- 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 ...
Four Things You Can Do to Make Your Database More Interoperable
- 12:02pm October 7, 2009
- 821 views
- News & Events
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NIF Webinar: June 23, 2009 / Topic: Using the NeuroLex Wiki
- 12:02pm October 7, 2009
- 859 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...
NIF Updated May 29, 2009
- 12:02pm October 7, 2009
- 804 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar - May 26, 2009 / Topic: NeuroLex Wiki
- 12:02pm October 7, 2009
- 815 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar - May 12, 2009
- 12:02pm October 7, 2009
- 851 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...
Welcome to the NIF!
- 02:15pm October 16, 2009
- 1079 views
- 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...
NIF Webinar - October 27, 2009 / Topic: Brede Tools
- 03:18pm October 23, 2009
- 1143 views
- 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 ...
Welcome to the NIF blog
- 03:00pm June 25, 2009
- 904 views
- Administrative, General information
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF; http://nif.nih.gov) is a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources, data, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. An i...
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Welcome to the Neuroscience Information Framework Project, designed to serve the biomedical research community. NIF maintains the largest searchable collection of neuroscience data, the largest catalog of biomedical resources, and the largest ontology for neuroscience on the web. We welcome all feedback and suggestions and are actively looking for resource providers to make their resources accessible through NIF. Learn about the tools available to help you share your data and discover a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources.
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