About INCF

Understanding the brain requires interdisciplinary cooperation and the integration of heterogeneous and complex data collected at multiple levels of investigation. The INCF will support such cooperation and integration efforts by coordinating key networking activities and by providing ground-breaking services and tools for identifying, analyzing and drawing knowledge from leading information resources throughout the world.

The mission of the INCF is to coordinate and foster international activities in neuroinformatics. The INCF will contribute to the development and maintenance of database and computational infrastructure and support mechanisms for neuroscience applications. This infrastructure will enable access to all freely accessible data and analysis resources for human brain research to the international research community. INCF will develop mechanisms for the seamless flow of information and knowledge between academia, private enterprises and the publication industry. The larger objective of INCF is to contribute to the development of scalable, portable, and extensible applications that can be used by neuroscience laboratories for furthering our knowledge of the human brain and its diseases.