nitrc:Partners

The INCF is a professional organization devoted to advancing the field of neuroinformatics. One of its aims is to develop an international neuroinformatics infrastructure, which promotes the sharing of data and computing resources to the international research community. A second objective of INCF is to help develop scalable, portable, and extensible applications that can be used by neuroscience laboratories worldwide.

NITRC's career opportunities and events content is populated directly from INCF's web site as these opportunities are global in nature.  In addition, NITRC populates the INCF Software Center with our listed tools and resoruces and visa versa. 

XNAT is an open source imaging informatics platform designed to facilitate management and exploration of medical imaging and related data. XNAT includes a DICOM workflow, a secure database backend, and a rich web-based user interface. XNAT's web services interface enables external applications to easily access XNAT-hosted data.

NITRC's Image Repository (NITRC-IR) leverages XNAT to facilitate detailed searches across NITRC data sets.

The Neuroscience Information Framework is a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources: data, materials, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. An initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, NIF advances neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to public research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment.

NITRC's content is a registered Tier 1 resource on the NIF web site.

NeuroDebian is a collaborative effort to package neuroscience-related software for the Debian operating system. The main goal of the project is to provide a versatile and convenient environment for neuroscientific research that is based on open-source software. To this end, the project offers a package repository that complements the main Debian (and Ubuntu) archive. NeuroDebian is not yet another Linux distribution, but rather an effort inside the Debian project itself. Software packages are fully integrated into the Debian system and from there will eventually migrate into Ubuntu as well.

NITRC's Computational Environment (NITRC-CE) virtual computing cloud-based platform is pre-configured with software tools build upon NeuroDebian.