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NeuroMorpho announces 10 years and 50K Neuron Reconstructions
- 09:55am September 6, 2016
- 1424 views
- News & Events, Data Spotlight
We are excited to announce that almost exactly 10 years after the original launch, NeuroMorpho.Org passed the milestone of 50,000 reconstructions in the September 1, 2016 release of Version 7.0. This ...
A STAR is Born, Indeed
- 04:39pm August 26, 2016
- 1536 views
- News & Events, Data Spotlight, NIFarious Ideas
News on the RRID front is encouraging!We have been very busy adding new journals over the last year. It is wonderful whenever we see a new journal with and RRID, especially when the instructions to au...
Protect Yourself from Zombie Papers
- 04:54pm April 25, 2016
- 1379 views
- Data Spotlight, NIFarious Ideas
Another fun flier to post around the department. Zombification of papers: the inability to use or validate information in the paper.How can we stop this terrible plague on the scientific literature? -...
What is the identity of your Cell Line?
- 09:49am April 12, 2016
- 2077 views
- News & Events, Data Spotlight, Inside NIF
The SciCrunch portals now contain a data source that will help people figure out if their cell lines have been reported to be contaminated and the Resource Identification Portal at scicrunch will star...
Do you have high performance computing needs for your computational work?
- 10:51am April 11, 2016
- 1436 views
- Data Spotlight
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...
Integrated Annotation just added the 7-million-th record
- 01:09pm February 27, 2015
- 1375 views
- News & Events, Data Spotlight
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...
Did you know? The IMPC maintains a large list of predicted mouse gene phenotypes
- 10:10am February 16, 2015
- 1356 views
- News & Events, Data Spotlight
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...
Worm brain in Robot body!
- 01:50pm December 4, 2014
- 1179 views
- Data Spotlight
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...
Big Data vs Small Data: Is it really about size?
- 04:10pm October 31, 2014
- 1090 views
- Curation, Interoperability, Data Spotlight, Inside NIF
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...
Introducing the Aging Portal
- 10:32am October 8, 2014
- 861 views
- Data Spotlight
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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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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