The fourth issue of the INCF Newsletter of 2009 is now available.
This INCF Newsletter features:
- information on INCF and INCF Node activities
- photos from the INCF booth at the SfN Neuroscience 2009 meeting in Chicago
- the latest information on the upcoming INCF Neuroinformatics Congress
(Maryann Martone, PI of NIF, will be the keynote speaker for USA at Neuro Informatics 2010 held in Kobe, Japan in August)
- a short interview with Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Coordinator of the new Erasmus Mundus PhD progam in Neuroinformatics; “EuroSPIN”
View the latest INCF Newsletter!
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a biweekly 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 Webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, December 15, 2009 and will
focus on the MIREOT Tool (Minimum Information to Reference External Ontology Terms).
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 • 11:00-12:00 PST
Topic: MIREOT Tool
Presenters: Alan Ruttenberg and Melanie Courtot
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739
This Webinar will provide a demonstration of the MIREOT Tool and the
rationale for using tools such as MIREOT to synchronize ontology
development. MIREOT is a mechanism and a minimal information standard
used for importing required terms into an ontology. The focus of the
demonstration will be on the simple workflow of allowing selective use
of classes from external ontologies. We will provide suggestions on
implementation for this mechanism and how it can be extended over time.
We hope you can make it.
Thanks!
It has been a month since the release of NIF 2.0, but we want to know — What do you think of NIF 2.0? Do you know of the changes made?
We created a short presentation of the improvements incorporated in NIF 2.0 (in case you missed them).
Do check it out and tell us what you think!
We look forward to hearing from you.
Hello everybody! The next NIF Webinar is scheduled for November 17, 2009. Please join Sridevi Polavaram from George Mason University for an informative and interactive session about Cell Ontology. Details follow.
Date: November 17, 2009 / 11:00 – 12:00 noon PDT
Topic: Cell Ontology
Presenter: Sridevi Polavaram
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739
Description: This Webinar provides an explanation of how NIF is building on its cell ontology. We will discuss standard naming conventions and set properties that have been made to ensure proper granularity. We will highlight tools such as the Neurolex Wiki to show how the population of the ontology has been realized. Most of this demonstration will involve the user’s perspective.
As this Webinar will mainly be from the user’s perspective, we strongly encourage you to join us! We look forward to seeing you there.
Greetings! The next NIF Webinar is scheduled for October 27, 2009. Please join Dr. Finn Aarup Nielsen for an informative session about the Brede tools. Details below.
Date: October 27, 2009 / 11:00 – 12:00 noon PDT
Topic: Brede Tools
Presenter: Dr. Finn Aarup Nielsen
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739
Description: This Webinar provides an introduction to the Brede tools. The tools consist of the Brede Toolbox, Brede Database, and Brede Wiki. The database and the wiki are collections of neuroimaging studies and their brain activations as well as taxonomies/ontologies. The toolbox is able to process and perform a range of meta-analyses with the data and present the results on the Web. This Webinar will demonstrate the database and the search facility as it appears on the Web.
Check out Nielsen’s journal article on Visualizing data mining results with the Brede tools!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Join us on Monday, October 19, 2009 from 6:30-9:00 pm for Neuroscience 2.0 – Networking data, tools, and people.
This exciting social gathering will be held at the Chicago Hilton in the Lake Erie Room (8th floor).
Refreshments will be served!
This social is co-sponsored by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), and Whole Brain Catalog™.
Please join us! 
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is participating in this year’s Neuroscience 2009, the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 17– 21, 2009 in Chicago at the McCormick Place.
Be sure to visit NIF in booth #2103, where we will be demonstrating the newly-released NIF 2.0.
NIF is also co-hosting Neuroscience 2.0 – Networking data, tools, and people, a social gathering on Monday evening, October 19th at 6:30 pm at the Chicago Hilton in the Lake Erie Room. Everyone is welcome.
We look forward to seeing you at Neuroscience 2009!
Today, NIF’s satellite event will include a workshop focused on two main topics.
- Introduction to data/resource sharing and discovery: This session will focus on resources available for helping you share data, data centric tools for collaborating with other researchers, and resources within the Neuroscience Information Framework for discovering and making resources known.
- Introduction to semantic frameworks (e.g. ontologies) being developed for the neuroscience community: This session will focus on
a) ontology/terminology resources such as NeuroLex, which provides a comprehensive collection of common neuroscience domain terminologies and b) spatial frameworks such as digital atlases.
Participants will also be introduced to community building tools such as Wikis. Presenters will introduce the wiki environment (i.e. MediaWiki) used by NeuroLex and Wikipedia.
* Participants are advised to bring a laptop in order to follow the workshop session.
It will be held at the Chicago Hilton Lake Erie Room (8th floor) from 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. See you there!
During the Neuroscience 2009 conference, the Lab of Neuroinformatics at RIKEN BSI will demonstrate the enhancements of their Web-accessible tool, “Related Abstract Search.” For more information, please visit the NIF community news page.
NIF will be attending this year’s Neuroscience 2009 conference in Chicago, IL, from October 17 – 21. Because of that, there will be a slight delay in the NIF Webinar schedule.
The next NIF Webinar will be about the Brede database.
Date: October 27, 2009
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT
Topic: Brede database
For more information about our Webinars, please visit our Webinar calendar at http://www.neuinfo.org/index.shtm#webinars.
We look forward to seeing you there.
