INCF has worked with SciCrunch through fiscal sponsorship which helped them complete the CZI-funded research resource table project for all BioRxiv papers (2024-2025).
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In the last month, the INCF-seeded RRID initiative, which aims to increase the visibility of research resources like software, has reached a major milestone, we have surpassed one million RRIDs published in the scientific literature.
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Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s Neuromatch Academy summer courses. Applications are due Sunday, March 23 at midnight in your local time zone.
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We’re pleased to introduce the 2025 SPARC Seminar Series, highlighting researchers who share their data and models on the SPARC Portal. This series fosters open science and collaboration on key biomedical topics, and starts on March 19th.
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We are happy to announce that INCF has been accepted to serve as a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC) for the 15th year running!
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We want to make sure our network is accessible to all members of the Neuroinformatics community. Help us by filling in your profile on INCF.org!
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Wondering what INCF is up to in 2025? We have lots of activities planned for this calendar year - here is a list of events we will host or attend in 2025.
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INCF will apply to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code for the 15th time running. Want to join us?
We are now calling for open source software development project ideas with some sort of neuro connection - fixes or extensions to big/broadly applicable or small/niche tools used by neuroscience researchers, efforts and initiatives in the broad field of computational neuroscience.
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This Giving Tuesday, we’re raising money to keep our training resources open and free to the global neuroscience community. Your gift will enable us to support open science for the global neuroscience community, leading to breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of the human brain.
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Here is a selection of INCF member publications for 2023. They include authors who are members, publications by our working groups, and publications using endorsed standards.
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Hierarchical Event Descriptors (aka HED) is an open standard for describing experimental events, conditions, and experiment organization in a format that is both human- and machine-readable to enable analysis, re-analysis, and meta/mega-analysis. INCF seeks community feedback on the Hierarchical Event Descriptors (HED) Standard.
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We've confirmed nearly all our speakers & are excited to share the lineup! Check out these exciting talks on BCI, neuroimaging, AI as a tool, & lots more.
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We’re happy to announce that Acta Neuropsychiatrica has joined the NPRC!
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INCF is proud to announce that Damion Demeter,a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD, has been hired as the technical writer for the INCF Google Season of Docs project.
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One of our main missions at INCF is to champion the core tenets of FAIR neuroscience and one project that has particularly caught our attention in such efforts is the web-based data analysis environment Neurodesk (neurodesk.org), which emphasizes portability and reproducibility in neuroimaging analysis.
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We are happy to announce that INCF has been accepted as an umbrella organization in the Google Season of Docs (GSoD) program for 2024! In this year’s GSoD, we are teaming up with the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) team in the US, supporting their project entitled Streamlining the BIDS Online Presence.
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On January 18-19 2024, the first Norwegian Neuroscience Data Sharing Workshop was held in Oslo. This two-day event was organized as a collaboration between the Norwegian EBRAINS Node (EBRAINS Norway), the Norwegian Neuroinformatics Node (INCF Norway) and the Neural Systems Laboratory, UiO.
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Are you interested in speaking at INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2024? We are seeking 3 investigator presentations for each of the 4 main sessions at INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2024:
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INCF is happy to announce that 2024 marks the fourth year of an on-going fellowship program with ReproNim, a reproducible analysis framework for neuroimaging science.
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We are happy to announce that INCF will submit an application to serve as a mentoring organization for Google Season of Docs 2024
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In a continuing effort to identify barriers to data sharing and reuse among neuroscience researchers worldwide, INCF’s Infrastructure Committee is redistributing a brief anonymous survey.
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The INCF Infrastructure Portfolio encompasses a compilation of neuroscience data repositories and scientific gateways, based on the evaluation criteria established by the INCF Infrastructure Committee between 2020 and 2021, and as outlined in our 2022 Scientific Data article.
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INCF is proud to announce InterLex as the newest addition to our Infrastructure Portfolio. InterLex models terms using primitives of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and can export directly to a variety of standard ontology formats.
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INCF is happy to announce a new addition to our Infrastructure Portfolio, the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury (ODC-TBI). With almost 200 datasets and 16 DOIs from over 100 labs, ODC-TBI is a data-sharing portal and repository for traumatic brain injury (TBI) data.
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INCF Standards and Best Practices Committee has developed our Standards and Best Practices (SBP) Portfolio, currently containing 12 endorsements, which are re-evaluated every two years. Continually at work to provide the neuroscience community with the most up-to-date, effective, and FAIR standards, the SBP Committee has recently endorsed three new standards!
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INCF’s Standards and Best Practices Committee endorsed NetPyNE as a new standard. NetPyNE is an open-source Python package designed for the development, simulation, and analysis of biological neuronal networks.
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INCF’s Standards and Best Practices Committee voted to endorse SWC as a new standard. SWC files (file extension of .swc) are text-based (ASCII text) files that describe three-dimensional neuronal or glial morphology.
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The INCF Standards and Best Practices committee endorsed the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) data structure as a standard
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A recent editorial in Nature magazine about harmonizing between the large international brain initiatives stated that “Several of the projects are using similar or identical technologies. It makes sense for the teams to liaise more closely, at the very least to begin a discussion on how to establish shared data standards, which they have not yet done.”
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The Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) invites applications for paid summer internship positions by motivated students in computational neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, machine learning, computer science or related fields.
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INCF is asking for your help to review NetPyNE to assess its value as a community standard. NetPyNE is an open-source Python package designed for the development, simulation, and analysis of biological neuronal networks
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We debuted our new collection of community resources at SfN 2023, and since we, for the first time ever at SfN, ran out of the printed collection we’re now sharing it here as well! This collection includes information on six key INCF tools and resources that help demystify and streamline the process of data sharing.
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The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) launched a new group to lay the groundwork for connecting global neuroscience and genomic data.
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INCF has been working to facilitate data sharing in neuroscience since 2005 by supporting community-driven standardization and interoperability efforts, and ensuring impact through training and advocacy activities. Your contribution enables us to provide open science resources and training activities to the global neuroscience community.
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In basic as well as applied neuroscience research, there is an unmet need for systematic, standardized and well-defined data organization practices and proper data description. Standards are needed at all levels: for data collection and description, for reporting methods and documenting workflows, for describing and sharing code for data processing and analysis.
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Last month, from September 18-22, INCF virtually hosted another iteration of our Neuroinformatics Assembly 2023. Neuroinformatics Assembly is the annual gathering of the INCF network and serves as its major outreach outlet for the network.
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The Institute of Systems Neuroscience (https://ins-amu.fr), a joint Inserm-University research unit located on the Timone campus in Marseille, is seeking to recruit a project manager under the authority of the team leader and institute director, Viktor Jirsa.
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An exceptional scientific leadership opportunity to lead the Centre and the next set of fundamental discoveries in brain research and mental health. As Scientific Director, you will continue to shape the bold, global vision for the Centre that leverages the computational and analytical assets, and strengths of CAMH, the University of Toronto, and the Canadian and international neuroscience and data science communities.
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In a continuing effort to identify barriers to data sharing and reuse among neuroscience researchers worldwide, INCF’s Infrastructure Committee is redistributing a brief anonymous survey.
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INCF and its Training and Education Council is arranging another instance of the Introductory Course in Neuroinformatics, this time on location at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, on October 2-4 2023.
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INCF is asking for your help to review the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) data structure to assess its value as a community standard.
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INCF is asking for your help to review the Digital SWC Reconstructions Describing Neuron Morphology (SWC) to assess their value as a community standard.
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The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (KCNI) is offering their second annual in-person project week! During the project week, trainees will learn hands-on techniques for integrating multi-scale neuroscience data. Altogether, up to 30 trainees will join KCNI in person, full-time, to engage with cutting-edge neuroinformatics methods, with support from our KCNI scientists and teaching assistants.
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INCF is happy to announce that the CAMH Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (KCNI) will host a virtual learning week, where KCNI scientists will share their knowledge with learners worldwide through open public webinars.
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Call is now open for interested trainees to apply for a position in the third annual collaboration between INCF and MathWorks: MATLAB Community Toolbox Training Projects 2023.
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Join us for Assembly, hosted once again on the Gather platform! We are currently looking for speakers for two investigator-led sessions, poster presenters, and of course Assembly registrants.
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Do you have a great workshop idea? Let us know! We are inviting all members of the INCF community to submit proposals for workshop themes to be included in the virtual INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2023 this autumn.
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Our portal is newly stocked with a multitude of resources to researchers who are in need of guidance and knowledge around the fundamentals of data sharing and data management.
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A recent paper in Scientific Data describes ASL-BIDS, the extension of BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) for arterial spin labeling. BIDS is a versatile standard for diverse types of neuroimaging data, originating from the INCF Taskforce for Neuroimaging Data Sharing and endorsed by INCF as a standard in 2018.
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INCF is asking for your help to review the 3D BRAIN Microscopy metadata standards (3D-MMS) to assess their value as a community standard. Participating is simple; read the INCF SBP committee review report on F1000 and leave your feedback in the comments!
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A new preprint describes the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), a major five-year effort within the BRAIN initiative that pioneers collaboration based on open and FAIR research practices. The BICCN is committed to implementing practices and technologies to make data and other research products FAIR.
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INCF will apply to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code for the 13th time running. Want to join us? If your project supports or implements INCF endorsed standards or best practices, we especially encourage you to apply!
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The INCF Training and Education Committee held a very successful Professional Development Workshop on Brain Data Science at SfN in San Diego.
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Mathworks and INCF held a pilot round last summer of engaging current or recently graduated students as trainees to work on MATLAB neuroscience toolboxes. Four trainees worked with mentors from the toolboxes Automatic Analysis, EEGLAB, FieldTrip and MatNWB.
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Identifiers for research resources are a new way to link papers, improve resource findability and reproducibility. A new project by SciScore and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) will see to implement a Resource table for each preprint.
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SfN starts tomorrow - Sat Nov 12 - and we look forward to seeing you there! Here is a list of the INCF member activities that will be taking place during the week. Note that we may add to this list as the week goes on, so feel free to check back!
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On October 25, the INCF SBP committee voted to endorse Neo as a standard, with standard number INCFSN-22-02.
Neo is an object model for handling electrophysiology data in multiple formats. It is suitable for representing data acquired from electroencephalographic, intracellular, or extracellular recordings, or generated from simulations.
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Mark Alan Musen, professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University points out in Nature that without appropriate metadata, shared data cannot be reused and data-sharing mandates will be pointless.
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The Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) team recently published a paper in eLife, “The Neurodata Without Borders ecosystem for neurophysiolo
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INCF is asking for your help to review the Neo object model for electrophysiology data, to assess its value as a community standard. Participating is simple; read the INCF SBP committee review report on F1000 and leave your feedback in the comments!
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Infrastructure Committee is trying to identify barriers to data sharing and reuse among neuroscience researchers worldwide, with a brief anonymous survey. The results will be made public, and will be used by INCF to develop strategies and activities for supporting the global neuroscience community.
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There is still time to register for our yearly neuroinformatics community meet-up and training event, the INCF Assembly in September - and we have just opened up submissions of late-breaking abstracts! Submit your abstracts by Friday August 19.
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Invited special session on "Tensor Representation, Completion, Modeling and Analytics of Complex Data" and would like to invite the INCF Community to submit abstracts for presentations at the upcoming Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Boston, MA, January 4-7, 2023.
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One of INCF’s core activities is the endorsement and promotion of already existing community Standards and Best Practices (SBPs).
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Having read about the FAIR principles in our last post, you might wonder - what is metadata? Metadata is data that describes other data. It summarizes basic information about data, making it easier to find and work with particular instances of data. To be as useful as possible, metadata needs to be standardized so it can be used and understood by many, and especially by machines.
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Rapid technical development means that neuroscience datasets are growing ever bigger and more complex, which makes them harder to store, analyze and share. However, if data are organized, well defined and well described in a standardized way, computational methods can help.
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On June 20-23, the International Data Week conference is taking place in Seoul, South Korea. Simultaneously, the international research data community will take the opportunity to highlight and discuss research data issues publicly, mostly online.
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INCF is asking for your help to review the Neo object model for electrophysiology data, to assess its value as a community standard.
Neo is an object model for handling electrophysiology data in multiple formats. It is suitable for representing data acquired from electroencephalographic, intracellular, or extracellular recordings, or generated from simulations.
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The INCF/OCNS Software Working Group is hosting a virtual five-day satellite event with neuroscience software tool tutorials on June 27 - July 1, before the CNS*2022 conference.
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The INCF Secretariat and community are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Gordon Shepherd: a great supporter of the INCF mission and a much appreciated friend and colleague. Gordon will be sorely missed and his enthusiasm and kindness will live on - he was a truly neuroinformagical person.
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The Allen Institute OpenScope Program, DANDI Archive, Neurodata Without Borders (NWB), and The Kavli Foundation are joining up to arrange a hackathon for secondary analysis of neurophysiology data on October 3 - 5, 2022 at the Allen Institute.
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This summer, INCF industry member Mathworks will sponsor INCF-supported summer projects for trainees to work on neuroscience-related Community toolboxes. During a trial run last year, four trainees worked with mentors from the toolboxes Automatic Analysis, EEGLAB, FieldTrip and MatNWB.
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INCF’s 12th year as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization will be the biggest yet; 40 of our projects were accepted!
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The INCF Infrastructure Committee’s “Recommendations for repositories and science gateways from a neuroscience perspective” has been published today, May 16, as a Comment in Scientific Data. The INCF Infrastructure Committee (IC), then led by Wojtek Goscinski, started the project with dual purposes - to help neuroscience researchers choose good services for their specific use cases, and to help service providers make good and future-proof decisions for setup and operations.
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A new "Perspective" in Frontiers describes BIDS-Microscopy, an extension of the INCF-endorsed standard BIDS for microscopy data. The extension is included in the latest release of BIDS (1.7.0) as BEP031.
BIDS is a standard prescribing a formal way to name and organize MRI data and metadata. The early development of BIDS was originated and supported by INCF as a part of its Neuroimaging Datasharing Task Force activities, and it was the first standard to be formally endorsed by INCF
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NeuroHackademy is a two-week long summer school in neuroimaging and data science, organized by long-term INCF community member Ariel Rokem and Noah Benson, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute.We have interviewed Ariel Rokem to learn more about the course, how it came to be, and what makes the hackathon culture a great space for collaboration and learning.
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Our yearly community meeting, the INCF Assembly, is a unique venue where neuroscience researchers, tool developers, standards developers and infrastructure providers can meet with potential collaborators and hear about the latest advancements in neuroinformatics and FAIR neuroscience.
This year, the Assembly will be hosted on the Gather platform.
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Terminology is often a barrier to enter a new field. The open scholarship movement in particular has generated many new terms and acronyms. Now there is a community-sourced glossary for open scholarship terms, developed with the aim to facilitate education and improve communication between experts and newcomers. The first version, v1.0, lists 250 terms and was recently described in a Comment in Nature Human Behaviour.
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On January 25, the INCF Standards and Best Practices committee endorsed the MBF neuromorphological file format v 4.0, as a standard. It is commonly known as “Neurolucida XML” and is used for digital reconstruction & modeling structure for microscopic anatomies.
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The goal of the MatNWB Working Group is to support the re-use of neurophysiology data via NWB by collecting MATLAB user requirements, outreaching to the wider MATLAB user community, coordinating among development teams (MatNWB, core NWB, MathWorks), identifying community project and collaboration opportunities, and other activities as may be determined.
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Developing standards requires both community coordination and consensus. Standards must also have governance structures to ensure sustainability, in addition to continued development to stay relevant and useful. Successful standards development and adoption requires collaborative channels for the community to identify common problems and find potential solutions - the INCF Assembly is intended to build productive communities around neuroscience standards.
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The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) was established in 2017, as a national network of Canadian neuroscience research centers committed to collaborating on a series of new open neuroscience initiatives, centered on sharing data and tools. CONP is a collaborator of INCF and has funding from Brain Canada and many other partner organizations.
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We are happy to announce that INCF has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2022, for the 12th year running!
INCF has participated as a GSoC mentoring organization since 2011, identifying and recruiting mentors from our community who volunteer to mentor one or more GSoC contributors in open source software development over the summer.
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As part of an externally funded project with members of the Cogitate Consortium, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is seeking to hire a Data Scientist or Scientific Software Engineer, ideally one with a background in research data management (RDM), FAIR data, and database administration.
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Short-Course: Longitudinal Data Tensor-Linear Modeling and Space-kime Analytics. This short course will cover the current state-of-the-art approaches for tensor-based linear modeling and space-kime analytics. Instructors will present a generalized framework for modeling and prediction of scalar, matrix, or tensor outcomes from observed tensor inputs.
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A recent perspective article in Neuroinformatics calls for increased international collaboration on standardization of neuroscience data.
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting for a Staff Scientist/Team Leader position to direct the Scientific and Statistical Computing Core/AFNI Team. The primary function of this group is to support multimodal neuroimaging research in the intramural research program (IRP) at NIH.
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Do you have a great workshop idea? Let us know! We are inviting all members of the INCF community to submit proposals for workshop themes to be included in the virtual 2022 INCF Assembly this autumn. We encourage submissions that focus on FAIR data management approaches, tools, and infrastructure applicable to the neuroscience data lifecycle.
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On January 26, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) launched the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), to enable better access to and discovery of NIH-funded data among generalist repositories.
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This week, INCF is applying to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the 12th time running. GSoC is a long-running program where contributors new to open source work with mentors on coding projects supported by a stipend from Google.
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CCN invites applications for paid summer internships by graduate or advanced undergraduate students in physics, electrical engineering, machine learning, computer science or related fields.
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INCF has been an active member of the IBI for several years, and Maryann Martone, chair of the INCF Governing Board, is also the co-chair of the IBI Data Standards and Sharing Working Group. In December 2021 the working group’s task force on International Data Governance published a paper describing issues and possible solutions for brain data governance.
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During 2021, the INCF Infrastructure Committee has focused on developing a set of recommendations and associated criteria for choosing or setting up and running a repository or scientific gateway. A manuscript giving the rationale for the recommendations has been submitted, and is now available as a preprint on arXiv.
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One of INCF’s longest running GSoC projects, Active Segmentation for ImageJ, has resulted in a paper. ImageJ is an open source Java image processing program extensively used in life sciences. The program was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins.
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The INCF Working Group on Neuroinformatics in Aging was formed in reaction to the observation that countries in Asia Pacific face a major societal burden due to decline in mental abilities and health of the rapidly aging population.
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INCF calls for mentors and project ideas for GSoC 2022. INCF has participated in the program since 2011 as a mentoring organization--identifying and recruiting mentors from our community who volunteer to mentor one or more candidates in open source software development over the summer.
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The Five Recommendations for FAIR Software aim to encourage the greater adoption of FAIR principles by providing a set of starting recommendations that researchers can use to improve the quality, reach, and reproducibility of their software.
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Applications are invited for Flatiron Research Fellowships (FRF) at the Center for Computational Neuroscience. The CCN FRF program offers the opportunity for postdoctoral research in areas that have strong synergy with one or more of the existing research groups at CCN or other centers at the Flatiron Institute.
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An initial effort has now been made by the BICCN network to make the most comprehensive and detailed map ever of any brain area; a map of the motor cortex and the cells it contains. More than 250 persons at more than 45 institutions across 3 continents have studied the area using an array of complementary methods. The resulting 17 papers are now being simultaneously published in Nature.
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The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, investigates the attentional, cognitive, and affective mechanisms of aesthetic perception and evaluation. The Department of Neuroscience invites applications for a Scientific Software Engineer (m/f/x).
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The INCF endorsement process for standards and best practices has been active for more than two years. This means our earliest endorsed standards are now up for re-endorsement!
This month, INCF re-endorsed the model description language NeuroML. Earlier this summer, INCF also re-endorsed the standards BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) and PyNN.
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The new ARTEM-IS Working Group aims to develop tools for the ARTEM-IS standard for electrophysiological methods reporting. ARTEM-IS is short for an Agreed Reporting Template for EEG Methodology - International Standard and is designed to make reporting EEG methodology easier and more accurate, by providing specific fields for specific details.
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INCF facilitates open neuroscience by 1) developing, vetting, and promoting FAIR standards and best practices, and 2) providing training in how to implement these standards and best practices on your own research. The purpose is to make neuroscience more open and FAIR, to ensure that research funds and efforts are well invested, and that neuroscientific findings are robust and replicable.
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Of course, over here at INCF, every week is open science week -- open neuroscience, to be more specific -- and we believe that all branches of science should be open.
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INCF has successfully concluded its 11th season of the Google Summer of Code, with 21 students completing their projects over the summer, mentored by more than 40 mentors from the INCF community.
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A collaboration between French researchers and clinicians has leveraged the BIDS (the Brain Imaging Data Structure) standard for neuroimaging datasets and the tool ecosystem that has developed around BIDS to build an easy-to-use neuroimaging data analysis platform for those who conduct clinical neuroscience studies.
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This summer Mathworks and INCF have in collaboration completed a pilot engaging students as trainees to work on MATLAB neuroscience toolboxes. The projects were 8 weeks long, starting in late June.
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To strengthen the project management department, Biomax Informatics AG is looking for an Application Scientist with focus on Neuroscience / Neuroimaging for the location in Planegg near Munich as soon as possible.
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”Publicly available data is at the heart of open science” - Interview with Falk Lüsebrink, creator of a unique, 10-year BIDS data set.
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INCF is proud to announce its first virtual training event! The INCF Training Weeks are scheduled to take place from August 23 to September 3rd.
There will be practical, interactive workshops on topics like cloud computing, Neurodata Without Borders (NWB), data and metadata management with NIX, and DataJoint elements, and tutorials on using standards such as NeuroML, BIDS, and NIDM tools.
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The Software Working Group is a joint collaboration between INCF and the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS). The working group focuses on evaluating and improving computational neuroscience tools: finding them, testing them, learning how they work, and informing developers of issues to ensure that these tools remain in good shape by having communities looking after them.
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For this year's Neuro walk (Neuropromenaden), the whole INCF secretariat joined up as Team Neuroinformagicians, and walked over 500 kilometers together, while enjoying the Swedish spring.
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Brainhacks and similar formats are increasingly recognized as a new way of providing academic training and conducting research that extends traditional settings. There is a new paper out in Neuron, by 200+ authors, describing the format and what makes it valuable to the community. This post aims to highlight some of the core themes of the paper.
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Commentary on the critical window for becoming a FAIR researcher by Heidi Kleven and Ingvild E. Bjerke, Neural Systems Laboratory, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
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A 2-day Summer Course on Data Science and Predictive Analytics including computational neuroscience applications. Intermediate to advanced data science training including collecting, managing, processing, interrogating, analyzing and interpreting complex health and biomedical datasets using R. Participants will gain skills and acquire a tool-chest of methods, software tools, and protocols that can be applied to a broad spectrum of Big Data problems.
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This past summer, 1199 students from 66 countries were accepted into the 2020 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program, working with nearly two hundred organizations on developing open source software. The program accepts students from all over the world, who receive stipends to write code - according to a self-defined project plan - for various open source software projects. 21 students worked with INCF’s mentors in various neuro-related research tool projects.
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The Five Recommendations for FAIR software were submitted to INCF for endorsement as a Best Practice and is now open for community review, an important step in the endorsement process. Please visit F1000 Call for Community Feedback on Five Recommendations for FAIR Software to comment.
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The Center for Neural Science (https://www.cns.nyu.edu/) at New York University (NYU), jointly with the Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation, invites applications for an open rank joint position, with a preference for junior or mid-career candidates.
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The Google Summer of Code is a long-running program sponsored by Google where students get a stipend for pursuing coding projects in open source. INCF has participated in the program since 2011 as a mentoring organization.
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Springer Link has just published a Neuroinformatics article on INCF. The article was written by the members of the INCF community, and describes the importance for standardization in data science and the role that INCF plays in the process.
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As a part of our efforts to make available educational materials in neuroethics, we are proud to announce our partnership with the International Neuroethics Society (INS) to disseminate a webinar series covering a range of neuroethics topics.
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Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the DAQCORD Guidelines - a framework for achieving high-quality data by providing a descriptive system for planning and reporting observational studies. This is a part of INCF’s Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the best practice being reviewed provides value to the community.
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The NIX Format - a model for storing annotated datasets across a variety of disciplines - has been endorsed by INCF!
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The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) has received a grant of $200,000 over two years from the Dana Foundation to support development and curation of educational materials in neuroethics for the INCF TrainingSpace.
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An NSF-funded multi-investigator collaboration is seeking individuals to help develop a standardized format for exchanging computational models among neuroscience, cognitive science and machine learning.
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BrainsCAN is inviting applications from outstanding neuroscientists who identify with an underrepresented group (including Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+, people with disabilities, and women) for 10 available postdoctoral positions.
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INCF has supported the OHBM Open Science SIG and Hackathon since its inception in 2012, and is happy to play a part to ensure their continued success. Below you can read the report from the 2020 edition of the OHBM Brainhac.
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Do you have an idea for a new project that will contribute to developing neuroscience research infrastructure? Will it also have an impact on the scope of that infrastructure? You should check out The Human Brain Project Calls for Expression of Interest (CEoIs)!
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Have you considered membership at INCF? We support, develop & promote standards & best practices to make life easier for neuroscientists. Members get benefits: discounts to events, products & services, funding, & a voice in decisions for global open & FAIR neuro strategies.
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Have you considered membership at INCF? We support, develop & promote standards & best practices to make life easier for neuroscientists. Members get benefits: discounts to events, products & services, funding, & a voice in decisions for global open & FAIR neuro strategies.
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Our most recent newsletter, Issue 2 2020, has been published. The quarterly INCF email newsletter offers updates on neuroscience and neuroinformatics activities, and the latest news from INCF and its community.
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Membership in INCF gives you a voice in the discussions around standardization, training, and open science by either direct or elected representation on our different councils and committees. Other benefits include discounts to events, products, and services, and the possibility to acquire funding for developing standards and best practices.
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The NWB Team will host the 9th NWB User Days Workshop remotely on September 21-23. The workshop will focus primarily on user training, including lessons for complete beginners to NWB and training in more advanced usage of NWB.
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INCF is always looking for ways to support neuroscience training activities, and we are very happy to provide the INCF training platforms to support two large training initiatives taking place this summer: the Neuromatch Academy and the NeuroHackademy.
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Multiple postdoc and PhD positions are available in the labs of Carsten Mehring (University of Freiburg), Domenico Formica and Giovanni di Pino (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) as well as Dario Farina and Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London), on motor control and movement augmentation, in the context of the EU project NIMA.
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Community review helps to optimize new Standards and Best Practices (SBPs) by allowing those who will use them to highlight areas of improvement before the SBPs are accepted.
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Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the NIDM-Results - a model for standardizing neuroimaging analysis results. This is a part of INCF’s Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the standard being reviewed provides value to the community.
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Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the NIX Format - a model for storing annotated datasets across a variety of disciplines. This is a part of INCF’s Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the standard being reviewed provides value to the community.
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The Best Negative Data Prize was created in 2018 to incentivise researchers to publish their negative results. Submissions are open from Apr 7 to May 31, 2020 for this year’s award of €10,000 which was generously sponsored by Cohen Veterans Bioscience.
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The NISO Taxonomy, Definitions, and Recognition Badging Scheme Working Group has drafted a standard for the names and definitions of reproducibility levels within the computational and computing sciences.
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We are excited to announce the 21 INCF projects that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2020! Stay tuned for more content on GSoC, including mentor profiles and posts detailing each project.
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Open, online, 3-week intensive tutorial-based computational neuroscience training event (July 13-31, 2020). Participants from undergraduate to professors as well as industry are welcome.
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Since the first Google Season of Docs (GSoD) in 2019, the INCF network has served as a mentoring organization providing mentors from the neuroinformatics community.
Before the organization applications are due, we are soliciting ideas for projects that are aligned with INCF community activities
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8th Annual NWB User Days Workshop which will be held remotely May 12-15. The focus will be primarily on user training, including lessons for complete beginners as well as training in more advanced features. There will be breakout sessions where the developers of NWB-enabled tools will train users in how to use NWB to access state-of-the-art analysis and visualization tools.
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Partnership with the INCF has enabled us to connect with our user-base on a global scale. Submitting NWB to the Supported Best Practice (SBP) program was a clear next step in our partnership. The SBP review process provides valuable information for both the community as well as the NWB team.
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This roadmap provides an overview of the existing and developing standards in the field of neurotechnologies for brain-machine interfacing. The focus is on systems that provide a closed-loop interaction with artificial devices based on information extracted from measurements of activity in the nervous system.
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The developers of the Marmoset Connectivity Atlas have published a paper describing the resource in Nature Communications. The Marmoset Connectivity Atlas is the result of a collaboration between the INCF Polish and Australian Nodes that was facilitated by the INCF seed funding scheme.
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This event is designed to inform the community of the brain data-driven efforts in the international arena, and open the discussion as to how we can combine our resources to achieve greater international cooperation in openly sharing data, AI and best practices - to enable us all to move forward synergistically.
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A new NeuroView paper in Neuron describes the International Brain Initiative, IBI, a consortium of big brain projects across the world who aim to coordinate efforts across existing and emerging national and regional brain initiatives. IBI was established in recognition of the fact that no single initiative will be able to tackle the challenge to better understand the brain.
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Do you want to learn how to model the brain and its parts? The European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) offers a spring school in Paris on theoretical and computational neuroscience.
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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Since 2011, the INCF network has served as a mentoring organization providing mentors from the neuroinformatics community.
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The Program Committee for the INCF Congress on Neuroinformatics 2020 (Seattle, USA, 20 - 21 August 2020) is soliciting proposals for investigator presentations to complement keynote presentations from leaders in the field. Investigator presentations should explore the latest developments, challenges/opportunities, and the role of standards and best practices in advancing
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Brainhack Warsaw aims to meet new, enthusiastic researchers, make new friendships in academia, learn, share the knowledge and also promote open science in the spirit of the whole Brainhack community .
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INCF is calling for community proposals for Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to be formed or renewed in early 2020. The call is open both to new and existing INCF SIGs.
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INCF will apply for GSoC 2020 and are now assembling mentors and ideas for projects. If you want to join us, email your project idea(s) to Malin Sandström (malin@incf.org) latest end of December.
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The latest issue of the journal NeuroImage is a special issue on reproducibility in MRI, led by Russell A.Poldrack, Kirstie Whitake and David Kennedy.
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INCF has reshaped as organization to a new, member-based model. Now you can be a member in INCF, both as an individual or as an organization or company. So why join?
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INCF has had two projects in the first ever Google Season of Docs, one with Canadian platform LORIS and one with OpenWorm. The tech writer working with LORIS, Alex Knoll, has described her project and experiences in a blog post - we recommend anyone interested in Season of Docs to read it!
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The Human Brain Project’s unique goal is to interconnect computer science, medicine and neuroscience to accelerate the understanding of the human brain and its diseases, and to harness th
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For the second time OpenMR Benelux organizes a meeting concerning open MRI science. OpenMR Benelux 2020 will be hosted at the Donders Institute for Cognition, Brain and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 21-23 January, 2020.
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There will be a Brainhack hackathon Nov 21 (possibly also 22), in conjunction with INCFs CodeRefinery Workshop at KI, 19-21/11.
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Computational Neuroscience Research Scientist position available at Krembil Research Institute/Toronto Western Hospital.
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Senior Lecturer and Co-editor KongFatt Wong-Lin calls for contributions to a Special Issue on Multiscale Modelling and Analysis in
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The BIDS community has voted in a Steering Group of five candidates, chosen as a slate. The slate chosen is the Guiomar Niso chaired slate with Melanie Ganz, Robert Oostenveld, Russ Poldrack, and Kirstie Whitaker!
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INCF had a booth at SfN 2019 in Chicago, held on October 19–23. The booth space was used for demos of INCF community projects and tools, among them Neurodata Without Borders, NITRC, ReproNim, g-node’s NIX, the BIDS standard and the INCF-developed tool Neurobot.
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INCF Community Engagement officer Malin Sandström has administered INCF’s partition in Google Summer of Code for 6 years, but never visited the yearly GSoC Mentor Summit.
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INCF has worked hard in the past months to optimize the services we provide to the neuroscience community, and we’re finally ready to announce the improvements we have done in order to se
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NWB:N 2.0 is a data standard for neurophysiology, providing neuroscientists with a common standard to share, archive, use, and build common analysis tools for neurophysiology data.
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INCF will be present as exhibitor at Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL, October 19-23. As usual, we will be co-located with a number of other neuroinformatics exhibitors, and we will host demos from our member countries and other INCF-associated projects. Come find us in booth 2117!
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The following statement is designed to clarify the complementary nature of the Brain Imaging Data Structure(BIDS) and the NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM).
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A Postdoctoral Scholar position is available in the Keator lab in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine campus.
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The annual INCF Congress provides a meeting place for researchers in all fields related to neuroinformatics. Join us for keynotes from top neuroscientists, community sessions and poster- and demo sessions.
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INCF is proud to announce the official launch of TrainingSpace (TS), an online hub that aims to make neuroscience educational materials more accessible to the global neuroscience community developed in collaboration with INCF, HBP, SfN, FENS, IBRO, CONP, IEEE, BD2K, and iNeuro Initiative.
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The NeuroML project focuses on standard descriptions of neuroscience model components, in the form of development of an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based description language that provides a common data format for defining and exchanging descriptions of neuronal cell and network models.
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INCF is calling for community proposals for Special Interest Group (SIG) and Working Group (WG) meetings to be held in Warsaw on August 31, the day before the Neuroinformatics Congress. The call is open both to new and existing INCF SIGs/WGs.
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Neurobot is a clinical study data management tool developed by INCF. CENTER-TBI, a large European project that aims to improve the care for patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the first study using Neurobot and it was customised based on the feedback from researchers in the project.
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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) was developed to give the community a simple and easy to adopt way of organizing neuroimaging and behavioral data.
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The INCF Special Interest Group on Neuroimaging Quality Control (niQC) has developed a survey to get a sense of various types of QC/QA that is done in the neuroimaging community.
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A new $10-million investment from the Ludmer Family Foundation will establish the Ludmer Centre Heritage Fund and help launch and support a Global Brain Consortium of leading brain research institutions focused on sharing infrastructure, methodologies and results, ultimately accelerating treatment for patients.
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From October 15th, 2018, Nature Publishing Group has updated their instructions to authors to include Research Resource IDs (RRIDs).
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Version 7.6 of NeuroMorpho.Org, which passed the landmark milestone of 100,000 publicly shared digital reconstructions, was released on November 27.
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We are very excited to start off 2018 by further developing our aim to promote the neuroinformatics field and advance data reuse and reproducibility in brain research according to FAIR principles.
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INCF and the CTSI are organizing The Brain Summit 2018: "Towards the alignment of the large-scale brain initiatives in support of clinical data", a symposium with emphasis on coordination and alignment of efforts.
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