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[EZID] Practical Hacking On Identifiers at BiOSphere 2 (PHOIBOS2), Feb. 17-19, 2015, Oracle, Arizona, USA

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 ...

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New SPARC Other Transaction (OT) Funding Opportunity Announcements!

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...

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Neuinfo x DressHead Chiffon Bodycon Dress

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 ...

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Funding Opportunity for Identification of Genetic and Genomic Variants by Next-Gen Sequencing in Non-human Animal Models (U01)

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...

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Training Activity - Human Brain Project - Call for Applications

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...

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NIF Events at SfN

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)...

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Text Mining Survey for Neuroscience

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...

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NIF will be at SFN 2015!

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...

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NIF-Hypothesis join forces

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...

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Request for Input on the Science Drivers Requiring Capable Exascale High-Performance Computing

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...

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Sandia National Laboratories has two positions open in Computational Neuroscience

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...

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Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study

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...

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Eating my own Dog Food!

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...

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Apply for the position of Program Manager of SPARC at NIH

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 ...

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“The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing”

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. ...

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 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...

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Version 6.1 of NeuroMorpho.Org

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...

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GBSI Antibody Survey

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...

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The re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories is moving forward

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...

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NIH Plan for Increasing Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Scientific Data

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...

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The NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program

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...

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Integrated Annotation just added the 7-million-th record

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...

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Did you know? The IMPC maintains a large list of predicted mouse gene phenotypes

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...

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Webinar from BioCaddie (aka DDI): Jeff Grethe presents NIF

Cooperative and collaborative data and resource discovery platforms for scientific communities – The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and SciCrunch Date: Thursday, February 12, 2015Time...

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The 10E8 antibody and other reasons I hate Excel

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...

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The Journal of Comparative Neurology Reaches 100 RRID papers!

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...

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The Journal of Comparative Neurology Reaches 100 RRID papers!

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...

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Research Resource Identification has made it into PLoS

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...

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Statement of Commitment from Earth and Space Science Publishers and Data Facilities:

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...

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Your chance to provide input on NIDA strategic plan

 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...

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Community based standards, a BD2K request for comments

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...

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Worm brain in Robot body!

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...

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NIF's top 10 brain regions and cells

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...

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Call for task force members - BioCaddie (BD2K - DDIC)

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...

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INCF & NIF social - Monday night in DC

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...

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From Force11: Abstract deadline in 5 days for Force2015

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...

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Big Data vs Small Data: Is it really about size?

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...

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RISE program at NMSU, highlighting success

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...

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ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS REPORTS DATA FROM ISIS-SMNRX PHASE 2 STUDIES IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN WITH SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY

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...

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Please join us for a webinar discussing Neurostars: A Q&A platform for neuroscience

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...

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Introducing the Aging Portal

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 ...

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Introducing the Aging Portal

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 ...

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Network of BioThings Hackathon - Nov 7-9

The Network of BioThings is sponsoring a hackathon.NoB Hackathon posterCome one, come all.Mainly though, sign up because space is fairly limited. ...

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Introducing the Aging Portal

NIF has created a dedicated subset of resources funded by and of interest to the aging research community. ...

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NIF now pleased to serve more electrophysiology data

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...

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New in NIF! Find your MRI images in NeuroVault

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...

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Obama wants to hear your 2 cents!

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...

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Olympus competition

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...

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Comment requested: Academic credit for reviewing

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-...

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Neurodata Without Borders needs your imput!

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...

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Have a great idea for a company? Check out the Brain Start Up Challenge

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...

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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...

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Validation problem with antibodies - get free samples, report back, help community

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...

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Scientific Data Reproducibility, a conversation - July 23, 2014, 1 pm EST

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...

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Have you ever wondered what is the longest gestation period for a bird, or what is the maximum age for a squirrel?

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 ...

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New in NIF - Neuroscience Gateway

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 ...

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Have you ever wondered what dragonfly neurons look like?

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...

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MCCSCourse, registration open

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...

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NITRC can host your data!

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...

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NSF Workshop on Noninvasive imaging of brain function

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...

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The 2014 Hackathon registration is open! - Hack the Brain

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...

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Cesar A. Berrios-Otero of F1000Research: lecture Tuesday April 29th, 2 pm.

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...

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RRID's are in the wild! Thanks to JCN and PeerJ

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...

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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...

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Open Science? Try Good Science.

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...

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New Course at Princeton: Neurotechnologies for Analysis of Neural Dynamics

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 ...

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Brain Health Registry

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...

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Resource Identification Quarter is Rapidly Approaching

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...

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The NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program (formerly Summer Institute on Aging Research) is accepting applications for an intensive introduction to aging research

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...

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The ABA and Gensat expression data has been substantially compared and it does not match up all that well

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...

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Free symposium covering neuroscience data integration at UCLA, March 11, 2014

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...

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The 2014 Series of PACE Data Mining Boot Camps Kicks Off on February 26-27

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...

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Vasculature Morphogenesis: Synopsis of three related articles by Halina Witkiewicz, Phil Oh and Jan Schnitzer

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...

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Guest Blog by Krystyna Gutowska...

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Where is your data now?

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....

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Resource Identification Initiative - AntibodiesOnline is giving away "nerd mugs" to help identify antibodies in your paper.

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...

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Biocurator position in the UK

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...

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Congratulations to Phil Bourne, the New NIH Director for Data Science!

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...

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Draft Declaration of Data Citation Principles, community comment are being sought

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...

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Resource identification initiative is gaining momentum - thanks Biocompare

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...

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Major Update of BAMS data

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...

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Demo Schedule at the NIF booth 4229 at SFN

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...

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NSG Satellite Event - Nov 9th at the SFN meeting

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...

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Do you know what you don't know? A gap analysis of Neuroscience Data.

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 ...

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Elsevier and the Neuroscience Information Framework Work Together to Improve Reporting of Research in Neuroscience Literature

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...

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Hot off the Press: Top 25 Databases of October!

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...

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Top 20 Databases of September!

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...

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Neuronal Computation Series - NIF Webinars

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...

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