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Hello, NIF/SciCrunch Community,Please take a moment to fill out the survey listed and described in the link below."The Biosharing team is conducting a survey on standards with and for 2 major/research...
Hello NIF Community!Below is a press release in regards to FAIR Guiding Principles formal publication. NIF fully supports the release and publication of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and R...
Dear NIF Community,The NIF home page was down last weekend due to a bad update that overwrote our production webserver files. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused. We are n...
Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community!The SPARC Program will be hosting an Informational Webinar about its three FOA's on March 24, from 12 - 1 PM. Please read below for more information."Dear Colleague,The N...
Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community!Please read below for a funding oppurtunity announcement from our colleagues at the NIH Common Fund SPARC Program Staff.Dear Colleague,The NIH Common Fund Program on ...
Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community!Please take a moment to read the information below about New SPARC Other Transaction (OT) Funding Opportunities provided by the NIH Common Fund SPARC Program staff. De...
Greetings SciCrunch/NIF Community!Please read below for a message from Maryann Martone regarding the upcoming "Annotating all Knowledge" event!Join us for the kick off face to face meeting for the ...
Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community! See below for important information on the upcoming Force 11 Conference."Force2016 ConferenceDates: Preconference: April 17, 201; Main conference: April 18-19, 2016Venue...
Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community! Please read this message from our colleagues at the NIH Common Fund SPARC Program staff regarding new funding opportunities!"The NIH Common Fund Program o...
The Neuroscience Gateway (http://www.nsgportal.org) allows neuroscientists to use commonly available computational and imaging tools such as NEURON, NEST, Freesurfer etc on supercomputers free of char...
Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community! Please check out this announcement below in regards to a three day PHOIBOS2 workshop at Biosphere 2 which will be located in Oracle, Arizona."In the era of big data ...
Check out these funding opportunity announcements from our colleagues at SPARC!"Dear Colleague,The NIH Common Fund Program on Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) has released...
Neuinfo x DressHead Chiffon Bodycon Dress / Purple and Black / Short Sleeves This very ornately studded jersey chiffon dress inspired by Neuinfo x http://www.dresshead.com is very unique and the only ...
Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community!Check out this funding opportunity from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH.“Identification of Genetic and Genomic Variants by Next-Gen Sequencing in Non-huma...
Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community!Check out the Call for Applications that has recently been released by the Human Brain Project!HBP_3rdWorkshopManchester_Call for Applications_V3"This is the third and fi...
NIF Events:Monday:BANTER (it’s a party): NIF is one of the co-sponsors of the Banter event at SfN. Don’t miss it! @sfnbanter #sfnbanterLocation: Frontier, 1072 N. Milwaukee (Blue Line to Division)...
Hello NIF Community!Our friends at the National Center for Text Mining have passed a survey along to us that we thought we would share with you all! In the words of the Professor Sophia Ananiadou, D...
Hello NIF Community!The Neuroscience Information Framework will be at SFN 2015!Attending the SFN meeting in Chicago? Come see what’s new in NIF. The Neuroscience Information Framework will have a...
NIF is working with Hypothes.is, a non-profit organization building an open annotation layer for the web. With Hypothes.is, users can add information to any web document, including scientific articl...
Dear NIF/SciCrunch Community,The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are seeking your input to identify scientific research that would benefit from a gr...
Hello NIF Community!Sandia National Laboratories has two positions open in Computational Neuroscience. Details below. Please share with your colleagues.Sincerely,The NIF/SciCrunch Team***Postdoc p...
Hello NIF Community!The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study intends to award funding to investigators interested in analyzing interactions between environmental and genet...
While not all of you have been fortunate enough to attend the first Beyond the PDF meeting, I will say this; it was eye opening for this scientist. To me, the most memorable statement from the meeting...
Hello NIF Family!The position for Program Manager of the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program at the National Institute of Health (NIH) is available. If you think you ...
The NIF community is very excited about a recently released research article, “The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing” (Anita Bandrowski, Matthew Brush, Jeffery S. ...
Common Fund Program Manager Office of Strategic CoordinationNational Institutes of HealthAre you a top-level Scientific Researcher seeking a career at one of the preeminent biomedical resea...
NIF/SciCrunch is very pleased to hear that NeuroMorpho.org has released two new datasets to its collection. This means there are 4597 new reconstructions for your accessing pleasure! To view these r...
Hello NIF family!The GBSI (Global Biological Standards Institute) has created a survey in order to gather valuable information in regards to how researchers view the best practices in Cell Culture Au...
NIF / SciCrunch is very excited about a couple of upcoming collaborations with re3data. Please take a look below for their new announcement about the DataCite (from Harvard) collaboration. Re3data's g...
The NIH put out a plan to increase access to scientific data.What do they really mean and what does this mean to researchers?Researchers have been asked to provide PubMed Central PMC identifiers in gr...
The NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program (formerly Summer Institute on Aging Research) is accepting applications for an intensive introduction to aging research. This program for investigators that a...
Yes we do have annotations!What can we do with these annotations? * When you are reading a paper, would you like to know if the data you are looking at has been stored somewhere? * Would you like to...
The Monarch project (monarchinititiave.org) with the NIF project have brought in many sources that are now available from NIF or many of the SciCrunch portals that contain a wealth of phenotype inform...
Cooperative and collaborative data and resource discovery platforms for scientific communities – The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and SciCrunch Date: Thursday, February 12, 2015Time...
Dear Microsoft, While I have, in the past submitted complaints to you directly, never having heard back, I am now submitting this set of woes for the enjoyment of the wider resource community. Dates a...
Have you ever wondered how can you find validated antibodies?Have you ever wondered where most of our literature mentions come from in the antibodyregistry.org?Well, wonder no more. Neuroscience Infor...
Have you ever wondered how can you find validated antibodies?Have you ever wondered where most of our literature mentions come from in the antibodyregistry.org?Well, wonder no more. Neuroscience Infor...
Thanks to some great folks at PLoS, we will be adding the PLoS Genetics and Biology journals to our list of journals joining the RRID pilot.For those of you who don't know about the initiative, NIF wi...
This is an important committment from the CODATA and earth science community. Looking quite forward to circulating a similar document from the Neuroscience community. Coalition on Publishing Data...
NIDA is asking for input on their strategic plan for the next 5 years. They are listening, what do you want to tell them? Text about the RFI from NIDA is below: The Division of Basic Neuros...
One of the Big Data to Knowledge, BD2K, activities has been to hold workshops to assess the state of the bioinformatics resource landscape and one important feature is the community standard, somethin...
Well we have done it. Captured the imagination of media types! Wish it sounded a little more like science and less like science fiction, but heck, this is a little bit of science posing as science fic...
Back by popular demand, NIF Brings you the top brain region and cellular search terms, most of which actually lost to the weirdest search term for this month: lettuce! No, we have no idea why people a...
As part of the NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) kick off, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Data Discovery Index Consortium, bioCADDIE (http://biocaddie.org). bioCADDIE (biomedical and...
NIF and INCF are present at Neuroscience 2014 in Washington DC, November 15-19 at the Walter E Washington Convention Center. Please visit us in booth #3516 & #3517, located near other neuroinformatics...
FORCE2015 CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS (www.force2015.org)\tNew! Travel Fellowship Applications Open\tNew! Call for Vision Flash Talk Submissions Open\tCall for Session Abstracts Submission Deadline Novembe...
We have been hearing for some time that when it comes to data, it is all about size. The bigger is better mantra has been all over the press, but is it really size that matters?There are the so called...
We at NIF were very fortunate to have hosted the director of the RISE program from NMSU, Elba Serrano this summer attempting to develop coursework and improve outreach to students and faculty at New M...
NIF applauds ISIS pharmaceuticals, the press release is below. This is an event, unfortunately too rare, where neuroscience research is successfully pushed from the bench to a clinical application giv...
Next week we kick off the fall webinar series, with Dr. Satrajit Ghosh from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Ghosh is a research scientist at the mcgovern institute for brain research an...
The Neuroscience Information Framework, has been asked many times "how can we sort through this dizzying amount of data?" to which we have never had a great answer until now. With SciCrunch, a shared ...
The Neuroscience Information Framework, has been asked many times "how can we sort through this dizzying amount of data?" to which we have never had a great answer until now. With SciCrunch, a shared ...
The Network of BioThings is sponsoring a hackathon.NoB Hackathon posterCome one, come all.Mainly though, sign up because space is fairly limited. ...
NIF has created a dedicated subset of resources funded by and of interest to the aging research community. ...
For years, physiology has been lagging far behind anatomy as data sharing is still in infancy in that community as opposed to being fairly standard now in neuro-anatomy.We are pleased to announce that...
New to NIF this week is NeuroVault.NeuroVault is a public repository where researchers can publicly store and share unthresholded statistical brain activation maps produced by MRI and PET studies. Man...
The White House OSTP is requesting comments on a number of issues, one of which is how the federal government can improve reproducibility in the science it funds: https://www.federalregister.gov/artic...
Olympus would like to invite you to submit several of your images and/or digital video clips to the 2014 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, which will honor extraordinary microscope images...
This seems a very interesting blog written by Rebecca Lawrence. The link is below.I am re-posting it for the NIF community.Link to original blog: http://blog.f1000research.com/2014/08/22/peer-review-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...