INCF - US Node Posted By: David Kennedy - Sep 7, 2010Tool/Resource: NITRC Community The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF - http://www.incf.org) is an international organization devoted to advancing the field of neuroinformatics. Each INCF member country establishes a National Node to further the development of neuroinformatics and to interface with the INCF. The United States (US), as a member country, is establishing a distributed series of nodes, recognizing the diversity and size of the US neuroinformatics community. Two such current nodes reside at the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF; http://neuinfo.org) and the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC; http://www.nitrc.org), two large projects funded by the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research consortium (http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/). The Blueprint is a consortium of the 16 NIH institutes, centers and offices that support neuroscience research that was established to support common programs across institutes. A third node is the Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS; http://crcns.org), a joint NIH-National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative that promotes data sharing in the computational neuroscience community. The US node is currently funded by the National Science Foundation which fields a large number of resources for computational neuroscience. The NIF project has established a common mailing list and will encourage all neuroinformatics centers that would like to serve as US node to join in order to foster communication about neuroinformatics in the US and abroad. Both the NIF and NITRC projects have been active partners and contributors to INCF activities. NITRC worked to establish the INCF Software center and provides the source for neuroimaging related tools. The NIF co-hosts the Neurolex wiki, a semantic wiki for viewing the products of the Structural Lexicon and Neuron Registry task forces for the Program on Ontologies for Neural Structures of the INCF. The US node is also actively involved in creating the underlying spatial services for the INCF atlasing program and co-leading the neuroimaging working group of the INCF metadata task force. The US is excited and pleased to be hosting the 2011 Neuroinformatics meeting in Boston (Sept. 4-5). Participation in the INCF US Node activities is encouraged! A mailing list is available at: http://mail.neuroinformatics.org/mailman... and the US-INCF-Node website can be found at: http://www.incf.org/about/nodes/united-s... |
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