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 next week, December 7th, 2010. Please join Ruchi Parekh, the NeuroMorpho.Org Project Lead, as she introduces the latest version released on November 5, 2010. She will be discussing what’s new, what datasets have been added, and how researchers alike can take advantage of this tool (sharing their data, fostering data mining, analysis, and modeling, and ultimately preventing data loss). Below is information on how to join the online meeting and accompanying teleconference.
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: NeuroMorpho.Org
Presenters: Ruchi Parekh
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739
NeuroMorpho.Org is a web-based inventory dedicated to densely archive and organize all publicly shared digital reconstructions of neuronal morphology. Since its creation in 2006, 3D reconstructions from this website have been used for comparative morphological and stereological analysis, compartmental simulations of neuronal electrophysiology, computational models of structure and development, scientific education, and anatomically realistic neural networks. Now four years later, the latest version is to be released presenting the new look of NeuroMorpho.Org. This release introduces multiple new functionalities aimed at improving navigation through the database. NeuroMorpho.Org have also added 122 new digital reconstructions bringing the total number of digital reconstructions in the database to 5793, reflecting contributions from 47 laboratories world-wide.
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 get you what you want, please ask the NIF Forum. We have recently launched forum as a place for questions and answers about neuroscience resources. Our curators spend countless hours searching for resources to register to the NIF, so we know a lot about what is available. If we don’t know, perhaps you or one of your colleagues does. So please join the NIF Forum to post questions and answers such as “Where can I find genetic studies on the cockroach?” “What is the definition of adult?”
https://forums.neuinfo.org/
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 next week, November 23rd, 2010. Please join Mike Hawrylycz from the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Ilya Zaslavsky from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, both experts on digital atlasing, as they present the brain atlas interoperability effort led by the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF). The INCF Digital Brain Atlasing Program coordinates development and integration of atlasing projects across INCF member countries. Among its major accomplishments are development of Waxholm Space (WHS), a coordinate-based reference space for registration of neuroanatomical data in the mouse brain, and atlas services and Waxholm Markup Language, which provide a standard way of exchanging and transforming spatial information across several atlases and coordinate systems, including WHS, Allen Brain Atlas, Paxinos Atlas, and Edinburgh Mouse Atlas.
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: Integrating Digital Atlases of Rodent Brain: the INCF Waxholm Space and Atlas Service
Presenters: Mike Hawrylycz and Ilya Zaslavsky
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739
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 San Diego, CA at the San Diego Convention Center.
The
Neuroinformatics & Genomics Social, sponsored by SfN, will be the first social event we will be taking part in. This social will include a brief presentation with guests, I. Zaslavsky, E. De Schutter, and C. Ingrahm from 6:45 PM-8:45 PM, on
Sunday, November 14, 2010.
With the astronomical increase of neuroscience data and tools, the need for standards and platforms for neuroscience data has become increasingly important. This social will present the activities of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), an international organization dedicated to development of standards and tools for sharing and integrating neuroscience information. NIF is one of the US National Nodes to the INCF and is involved in many of their programs. Come and learn about INCF and how you can participate in INCF programs in atlasing, ontologies, metadata, and modeling.
This social will be located at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina: Columbia 1&2.
On
Monday, November 15, 2010, NIF will be co-sponsoring the
Neuroscience 2.0 – Networking data, tools, and people social with
the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), Whole Brain Project (WBP), Allen Institute for Brain Science, Linking Animal Models to Human Disease (LAMHDI), Code Analysis, Repository & Modelling for E-Neuroscience (CARMEN), and Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC).
This social will be located at the Tipsy Crow located in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. It will be from 6:30 PM-9:30 PM. Be sure to drop by the NIF booth (#4024) to receive an invitation. (Note: You must be age 21+ to attend)
View the floor plan below to make sure you can find us! We will be at
Booth #4024.
We look forward to seeing you at Neuroscience 2010!
