Neuroscience Information Framework 1.5 Release Posted By: David Kennedy - May 7, 2009Tool/Resource: NITRC Community The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is pleased to announce the release of NIF 1.5 and looks forward to feedback from the community. With this release we have significantly upgraded the content, functionality and look and feel of the NIF. Please visit our web page at http://www.neuinfo.org to use the new release and for more information. In order to help familiarize users with the new release, we have provided tutorials that are available at http://neuinfo.org/tutorials/index.shtm. If you are not familiar with NIF, we recommend visiting the website and viewing the “Simple search” video tutorial (http://www.neuinfo.org/tutorials/general...). We will also be hosting a webinar session on Tuesday, May 12th at 11 am PDT/2 pm EDT (see event details below) so that you can learn about the NIF and see how it works. In the meantime, we’d appreciate you giving it a try. NIF offers both a simple search interface and an advanced interface to search across multiple information sources. The advanced interface let’s you work with the NIF vocabularies to compose and refine your query. A tutorial on the use of the advanced search may be found at http://www.neuinfo.org/tutorials/general... To get you started, here are a few things you can try with the new NIF release: 1) Search for genes by typing gene:gene symbol or gene name, e.g., gene:snca or gene:”dopamine transporter” (don’t forget the quotes when using a compound term). 2) Refine your search using the NIF vocabularies: Enter “Cerebellum” as the search term. Now expand the term using the ‘expand’ button (which has a drop down that allows you to set several options). The default options will display parts of the cerebellum. You can now select term(s) from the expanded list. Once your list of included terms is complete you can then add them to your search. 3) Try the NIF Firefox search plug-in: search the NIF directly from your Firefox browser by loading the NIF search plug in (http://www.neuinfo.org, select “Add NIF Search to your Firefox search bar”). 4) Try our new database results page. Type “cerebellum”, and click on the Database tab. Use the side navigation to select database results based on data types, e.g., images, brain activation loci, or biological area. We’ve improved the results display from each of the databases accessed by NIF. You can view the tutorials by clicking on the scholar icon in the upper right hand corner of the search results display window. 5) Take a look at the NIF vocabularies that underlie the NIF system. The easiest way to view them (and to provide feedback on them) is through the Neurolex Wiki. Each concept is described on it’s own Wiki page and is available for comment. Please visit http://www.neurolex.org. The NIF project is designed to serve the biomedical research community. The more participation from the community, the better the NIF. We welcome all feedback and suggestions and are actively looking for resource providers to make their resources accessible through the NIF. We look forward to your feedback on any or all of these features. Are they easy to use? Do you find useful information using NIF? What would you like to see in the future? What resources would you like to see within NIF? NIF Information: If you have any questions or would like more information, please send us an e-mail at info@neuinfo.org. Twitter users: Follow NIF at http://twitter.com/neuinfo Blog readers: Visit the Neuroscience Information Framework blog at http://blog.neuinfo.org/ NIF Webinar: Meeting Name: Neuroscience Information Framework Webinar When: 05/12/2009 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada); Tijuana Dial-In: 866-740-1260 Pass-Code: 8220739 To join the meeting: http://nif.acrobat.com/webinar/ ---------------- If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting before: Test your connection: http://nif.acrobat.com/common/help/en/su... Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overv... Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and Acrobat Connect are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. |
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