NIF Webinar – December 7, 2010 / Topic: NeuroMorpho.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, 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.