Hello everyone.

Please mark your calendars.

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Drs. Niels van Strien and Natalie Cappaert as they discuss Charting the brain’s connections: An interactive connectome of the rat hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex.

The following is a description of the Webinar:

Connectomes of the brain represent a comprehensive description of the network elements and connections that form the brain. In this webinar, we will present the most recent update of an interactive connectome that now comprises the rat hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex. It is based on all available peer reviewed anatomical tract-tracing studies of these regions and likely is the most detailed representation of anatomical connectivity within and between these regions to date. After concisely explaining the anatomy of the hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex, and how these areas are represented in this connectome, we will address the challenges of anatomical connectomes that remain to be resolved. The talk will finish with an example of a testable hypothesis that can be generated when analyzing this freely available connectome, thereby exemplifying its usefulness. The hippocampal – parahippocampal connectome can be downloaded for free from http://www.temporal-lobe.com/ and provides online resources such as a reference search and an elaborate pubmed query.

Date and Time: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Charting the brain’s connections: An interactive connectome of the rat hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex.
Presenters: Drs. Niels van Strien and Natalie Cappaert
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday 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.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org

Hello everyone.

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The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please Bradley Voytek as he discusses Automated Cognome Construction and Semi-automated Hypothesis Generation.

The following is a description of the Webinar:

Modern neuroscientific research stands on the shoulders of countless giants. PubMed alone contains more than 21 million peer-reviewed articles with 40-50,000 more published every month. Understanding the human brain, cognition, and disease will require integrating facts from dozens of scientific fields spread amongst millions of studies locked away in static documents, making any such integration daunting, at best. The future of scientific progress will be aided by bridging the gap between the millions of published research articles and modern databases such as the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA). To that end, we have analyzed the text of over 3.5 million scientific abstracts to find associations between neuroscientific concepts. From the literature alone, we show that we can blindly and algorithmically extract a “cognome”: relationships between brain structure, function, and disease. We demonstrate the potential of data-mining and cross-platform data-integration with the ABA by introducing two methods for semi- automated hypothesis generation. By analyzing statistical “holes” and discrepancies in the literature we can find understudied or overlooked research paths. That is, we have added a layer of semi-automation to a part of the scientific process itself. This is an important step toward fundamentally incorporating data-mining algorithms into the scientific method in a manner that is generalizable to any scientific or medical field.

Read the paper before the webinar at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027012001513

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Automated Cognome Construction and Semi-automated Hypothesis Generation
Presenter: Bradley Voytek
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday 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.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org

If you missed today’s NIF Webinar by Russell Poldrack on the Cognitive Atlas, you can still enjoy all the fun!

NIF Webinars are routinely recorded and made available to the entire neuroscience community through the NIF Webinar archive.

Find today’s recording at the NIF Webinar archive at http://www.neuinfo.org/webinars/archive.shtm, along with recordings of all the Webinars we have held.

Thank you for your continued support of NIF

Here are the top 25 accessed databases at NIF for April 2012:

1.            Grants.gov/Opportunity
2.            AntibodyRegistry/ABs
3.            CCDB/All Information
4.            SumsDB/Activation Foci
5.            GENSAT/GENSAT
6.            BrainInfo/Brain Region
7.            Drug Related Gene Database/DRG
8.            ResearchCrossroads/Grants
9.            NIF Integrated Nervous System/Connectivity
10.          ClinicalTrials/ClinTr
11.          DrugBank/Drugs
12.          Gemma/Microarray
13.          RePORTER/CurrentNIHGrants
14.          OneMind/BioBanks
15.          NIF Integrated Software/Info
16.          NIF Integrated Animals/Available
17.          GEO/Gene Expression Omnibus
18.          BrainMaps/Atlas
19.          HumanBrainAtlas/Michigan
20.          OMIM/Genes
21.          BAMS/BrainRegions
22.          OpenfMRI/Databases
23.          ModelDB/Models
24.          NIF Integrated Disease/Info
25.          AllenInstitute/MouseBrainAtlas

Here are the top 25 search terms at NIF for April 2012:

1.  antibodyregistry
2.  Database OR Databases OR “Database resource” OR “Data base
3.  field AND receptive
4.  EEGbase
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7.  Amygdala OR “Amygdaloid complex” OR “amygdaloid body” OR “amygdaloid nucleus” OR archistriatum
8.  Hippocampus OR “ammon horn” OR “Ammon’s horn” OR “hippocampus proper” OR “Cornu ammonis”
9.  “Cerebellum Purkinje cell” OR “Cerebellar Purkinje neuron” OR “Purkinje Cell” OR “Purkinje’s corpuscles” OR “Purkinje neuron”
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23.  “NITRC \- Neuroimaging Informatics Tools AND Resources Clearinghouse”
24.  “Decussation of superior cerebellar peduncle” OR xscp
25.  “Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell” OR OPC

Hello everyone.

Please mark your calendars.

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Dr. Russell Poldrack as he discusses Cognitive Atlas.

The following is a description of the Webinar:

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Russell Poldrack, about the Cognitive Atlas, which is a collaborative knowledge building project that aims to develop a knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science. Harmonization of this terminology with CogPO will be a portion of this discussion. Dr. Poldrack also runs the open fMRI data center and will discuss how terminology in the Cognitive Atlas impacts the data collection at open fMRI.

Russell Poldrack is a Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin and the Cognitive Atlas is a collaboration with the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (A. Toga, PI) and UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (R. Bilder, PI). It is supported by grant RO1MH082795 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Cognitive Atlas
Presenter: Dr. Russell Poldrack
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday 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.

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NIF Communications Team
UC San Diego
3rd Floor, Atkinson Hall
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0446
La Jolla, California 92093

858-822-0755
http://www.neuinfo.org