1st INCF Workshop on Time Series Data: Analysis and Management

Stockholm, December 4 - 5, 2008

Goal

In parallel to the tremendous technical progress in acquisition of electrophysiological and other time series data, there is a growing need for new and advanced ways to analyze, manage, and share these data. To this end the workshop focused on the exploration of existing and upcoming standards, including data formats and best practices. The goal of the workshop was to identify challenges as well as discuss solutions and approaches to these, resulting in a report recommendations to the INCF.

Participants

Jan Benda, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
Piotr Durka, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Jeffrey Grethe, UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA
Colin Ingram, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Hiroyuki Ito, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
Tom Jackson, The University of York, York, UK
Gareth Leng, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA
Martin Nawrot, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Matias Palva, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Greg Smith, Cambridge Electronic Design, Cambridge, UK
Fritz Sommer, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Casey Stengel, Neuralynx, Tucson, New Mexico, USA
Jonathan D. Victor, Weill Cornell Medical College, Ithaca, New York, USA
Thomas Wachtler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Program

December 4:
09:00 - 09:30   Introduction and orientation (Jan Bjaalie, INCF, and Garreth Leng, scientific organizer)
09:30 - 12:30   Scientific presentations and discussions
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
13:30 - 16:00   Scientific presentations and discussions
16:00 - 18:00   Meeting of working groups
20:00 -             Dinner and further discussion

• Tom Jackson, Colin Ingram | The CARMEN Project: a virtual laboratory for neurophysiology
• Partha Mitra | Avoiding Neurobabel - Shared tools and metrics for neural signal processing
• Jan Benda | Metadata acquisition and management with RELACS and LabLog
• Piotr Durka | SignalML and signalml: metadescription of biomedical time series and a commercial grade open interface
• Fritz Sommer | CRCNS.ORG: A repository of high-quality data sets and tools for Computational Neuroscience
• Matias Palva | Large-scale time-series analyses of MEG and EEG data
• Thomas Wachtler, Martin Nawrot | G-Node - tool and data sharing for neurophysiology
• Hiroyuki Ito | Current status of spike data exchange effort in Japan -the data format problem and other challenges
  
  

December 5:
08:30 - 12:30   Meeting and report of working groups
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch

Support

The workshop was supported by the INCF Central Fund and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.

Meeting location

INCF Secretariat
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15 A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

Travel information

Scientific organizer

Gareth Leng, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom