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

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

Here are the top 25 Searches at NIF for January 2012.

1. database
2. Images
3. antibodyregistry
4. Brain Regions
5. Brain Activation Foci
6. Cingulate Cortex
7. Drugs
8. Multimedia
9. Animals
10. Alzheimer’s
11. Antibodies
12. Cerebellum
13. Hippocampus
14. Mitral Cell
15. Amygdala
16. Cerebral Crus
17. Cerebral Peduncle
18. Flocculonodular Lobe
19. Forebrain
20. Basal Ganglia
21. Brainstem
22. Corpus Callosum
23. Frontal Lobe
24. hippocampus
25. Claustrum

What are people looking for at NIF?  As the year draws to a close, we bring you the NIF Top 10.

The NIF Top 10 Categories for December 2011 are….

1. Nervous System Level:Multi-Level
2. Nervous System Level:Brain Regions
3. literature
4. Data Type:Images
5. Data Type:Antibodies
6. Data Type:Animals
7. registry
8. Data Type:Drugs
9. Data Type:Connectivity
10. Data Type:Disease

As the year ends, we begin a new series of posts, the NIF Top 10.

Here are the Top 10 Searches at NIF for December 2011

1. cerebellum
2. “Purkinje Cell”
3. “Diencephalon”
4. antibodyregistry
5. hippocampus
6. “Brainstem”
7. s100b
8. sert
9. “Frontal Lobe”
10. “Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell”