Archive for May, 2010

German INCF Node Symposium

Posted on May 28th, 2010 in News & Events | 4 Comments »

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 exciting talks by renowned scientists, exploring how neuroinformatics can contribute to progress in neuroscience. We look forward to bringing together an interested audience from the INCF Nodes and the National Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience to discuss issues of analysis, data sharing, and interactions between experimental and computational approaches in neurophysiology. In addition to the talks and discussion, there will be a poster session. All attendants are welcome to present a poster.

To register, please send a brief email to symposium2010@g-node.org. Please indicate if you would like to present a poster. Detailed information will be available at http://www.g-node.org/symposium2010.

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G-Node Inaugural Symposium

“Neuroinformatics: Linking Brain Research from Physiology to Models”

June 17, 2010, 9:00-13:00
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Biozentrum, Martinsried

Speakers:

Piotr Durka, University of Warsaw, Poland
Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Colin Ingram, University of Newcastle, UK
Mayank Mehta, UCLA, USA

For further information please visit
http://www.g-node.org/symposium2010

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

Posted on May 4th, 2010 in News & Events, Webinar Announcement | 2 Comments »

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 other appropriate NIF topics.

Our next NIF Webinar is scheduled for May 11th, 2010. Please join Dr. Anita Bandrowski, NIF Project Curator, for an informational session on the new features offered in NIF 2.5. If you missed the last Webinar on NIF 2.5, this is your chance! Below is information on how to join the online meeting and accompanying teleconference.

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: Features of the New NIF 2.5
Presenters: Dr. Anita Bandrowski
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

NIF 2.5 includes new services, incorporates new features to the search interface, and solves known issues/bugs. Through this informational session, find out more about NIF cards, NIFSTD entity recognition, new literature, and improvements on search.  Learn more about the services such as the Ontology Access Service, SOLR Service, and  the varying API interfaces. New features to look forward to are Concept-based search through autoexpansion, MyNIF capabilities to save searches, highlighted search results according to a semantic category in the NIF ontologies, and many more. Known issues regarding the scroll bar, browser compatibility, and search box behavior have been resolved and we have even improved on performance and stability of NIF Literature and Pubmed Results.

We look forward to seeing you there!