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Contact Team Standards and Best Practices organisation for open and FAIR neuroscience INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2022 Advances in FAIR data management and sharing practices for neuroscience research, infrastructure and tools Dates: 12 - 16 September 2022Virtual meeting Read more & register Google Summer of Code (GSoC) INCF is a 2022 GSoC mentoring organization.Between 2016 and 2020, INCF paired 87 students with 107 mentors. Read more Standards and best practices INCF serves as a standards organization dedicated toopen and FAIR neuroscience Read more Active collaboration In our Working Groups, users and developers work collaboratively to develop and refine community standards. Read more Join INCF! Be a part of the INCF community and benefit from collaboration opportunities, discounted events, and participate in discussions and decisions on global neuroinformatics strategy! Join here Latest updates: Registration is now open for INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2022! Read all updates A standards organization for open and FAIR neuroscience The mission of INCF is to develop, evaluate, and endorse standards and best practices that embrace the principles of Open, FAIR, and Citable neuroscience. INCF also provides training on how standards and best practices facilitate reproducibility and enables the publishing of the entirety of research output, including data and code. Standards INCF serves as a standards organization dedicated to open and FAIR neuroscience by vetting, endorsing, and promoting the use of community standards and best practices. Working Groups In our Working Groups, users and developers work collaboratively to develop  community standards and best practices and implement them in tools and resources. Join INCF Be a part of the global INCF community: form or join a Working Group, join one of our committees, attend our events, become a member, or stay in touch virtually. INCF Assembly The INCF neuroinformatics conference provides a forum for researchers, infrastructure providers, and developers to connect and train or be trained in neuroinformatics. Training INCF provides informatics educational resources for the global neuroscience community both online and through in-person courses and workshops at the INCF Assembly. Success stories In these stories from our community, you can read about how INCF-endorsed standards and best practices have improved collaborative projects by increasing interoperability. Why INCF?Here is a short video describing the purpose of the INCF network, our activities and, why you should get involved. Thanks to the INCF community members who have contributed towards developing this video. We hope you will watch and join our network!Join 120 Institutions affiliated with INCF 47 Number of HPC facilities 400 Researchers engaged in the network 86 Tools developed by the network 5 Standards and best practices endorsed 1000000 Data models shared within the network New paper on BIDS-Microscopy SBPs /29 Apr 22 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 INCFRead more Interview with NeuroHackademy founder Ariel Rokem Success stories /08 Apr 22 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.Read more Welcome to the INCF Assembly 2022! INCF Assembly /06 Apr 22 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.Read more A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms Community activities /25 Mar 22 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. Read more INCF endorses the MBF neuromorphological file format SBPs /21 Mar 22 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.Read more New Working Group: WG on MATNWB Community activities /16 Mar 22 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.Read more Standards are needed to get the most out of brain research SBPs /14 Mar 22 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.Read more CONP, the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform News /10 Mar 22 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.Read more INCF accepted as a mentoring organization in GSoC 2022 News /08 Mar 22 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.Read more Data Scientist or Scientific Software Engineer at the Max Planck Institute Jobs /07 Mar 22 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.Read more Short-Course: Longitudinal Data Tensor-Linear Modeling and Space-kime Analytics News /07 Mar 22 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.Read more Call for global collaboration on standardization of neuroscience data News /03 Mar 22 A recent perspective article in Neuroinformatics calls for increased international collaboration on standardization of neuroscience data. Read more Staff Scientist/Team Leader Position Available Jobs /21 Feb 22 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. Read more Funding opportunities February 2022 Jobs /11 Feb 22 List of Funding opportunities in February 2022Read more Call for INCF Assembly Workshop Themes INCF Assembly /07 Feb 22 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.Read more NIH launches the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative to increase access to biomedical data News /07 Feb 22 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.Read more INCF applies to GSoC 2022! Community activities /04 Feb 22 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.Read more Summer Research Assistant/Associate, Center for Computational Neuroscience (Multiple Positions) Jobs /31 Jan 22 CCN invites applications for paid summer internships by graduate or advanced undergraduate students in physics, electrical engineering, machine learning, computer science or related fields. Read more IBI working group publishes paper calling for international data governance Community activities /27 Jan 22 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. Read more Recommendations for repositories and scientific gateways from a neuroscience perspective Community activities /11 Jan 22 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. Read more Long-running GSoC project on image segmentation results in a paper Success stories /11 Jan 22 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. Read more Neuroinformatics in Aging WG outputs Community activities /20 Dec 21 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.Read more INCF calls for mentors and project ideas for GSoC 2022 Community activities /14 Dec 21 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.Read more INCF endorses Five Recommendations for FAIR Software as a Best Practice SBPs /01 Dec 21 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. Read more Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Neuroscience Jobs /27 Oct 21 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.Read more An ultra detailed map of the motor cortex, from mice to monkeys to humans News /07 Oct 21 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. Read more New Job Posting: Scientific Software Engineer Jobs /01 Oct 21 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).Read more INCF re-endorses NeuroML, BIDS and PyNN SBPs /27 Sep 21 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. Read more New Working Group: INCF WG on ARTEM-IS Community activities /21 Sep 21 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.Read more It’s still open science week! News /16 Sep 21 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. Read more It’s open science week! News /14 Sep 21 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.Read more INCF successfully completes its 11th Google Summer of Code Community activities /14 Sep 21 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. Read more A clinical neuroimaging platform built on community standards News /01 Sep 21 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.Read more Summer project collaboration between INCF and Mathworks Community activities /30 Aug 21 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.Read more Application Scientist with focus on Neuroscience / Neuroimaging - Biomax Informatics AG Jobs /06 Jul 21 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.Read more Interview with Falk Lüsebrink, creator of a unique, 10-year BIDS data set Success stories /21 Jun 21 ”Publicly available data is at the heart of open science” - Interview with Falk Lüsebrink, creator of a unique, 10-year BIDS data set.Read more Virtual INCF Neuroinformatics Training Weeks 2021 INCF Workshops /17 Jun 21 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.Read more New INCF Working Group: INCF/OCNS Software WG Community activities /01 Jun 21 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.Read more INCF staff walk the Neuropromenaden to benefit research on neurological diseases Community activities /31 May 21 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.Read more 10+ years of Brainhack: an open, inclusive culture for neuro tool developers at all levels Community activities /12 May 21 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.Read more The critical window for becoming a FAIR researcher Commentaries /19 Apr 21 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.Read more 2021 ISI/WSC Summer Course: Data Science and Predictive Analytics (June 16-17, 2021) Conference /02 Apr 21 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.Read more Ten summers with Google Summer of Code Community activities /19 Mar 21 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.Read more Call for community review: Five Recommendations for FAIR Software, guidelines that aim to apply the FAIR principles to software Community activities /16 Mar 21 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.Read more Researcher (Joint Position with NYU CNS), Center for Computational Neuroscience Jobs /04 Mar 21 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.Read more Google Summer of Code 2021 Community activities /17 Feb 21 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.Read more New publication in Neuroinformatics by members of the INCF community! Community activities /29 Jan 21 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.Read more INCF partners with INS to disseminate neuroethics education Community activities /22 Jan 21 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.Read more Call for community review of the DAQCORD Guidelines SBPs /19 Jan 21 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.Read more NIX data model: our newest endorsed standard! SBPs /17 Nov 20 The NIX Format - a model for storing annotated datasets across a variety of disciplines - has been endorsed by INCF!Read more INCF receives $200,000 grant from the Dana Foundation for developing TrainingSpace News /16 Oct 20 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. Read more Seeking individuals to help develop a standardized format for exchanging computational models News /09 Oct 20 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. Read more BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Special Call Jobs /01 Oct 20 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. Read more OHBM Hackathon 2020 Report for sponsors Community activities /30 Sep 20 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.Read more The HBP Calls for Expression of Interest News /31 Aug 20 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)!Read more Meet our company members! News /28 Aug 20 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.Read more Meet our members! News /24 Aug 20 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.Read more INCF 3.0: Leading the way to open and FAIR neuroscience News /21 Aug 20 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.Read more Why join INCF? Community activities /18 Aug 20 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.Read more Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) User Days Workshop, September 21-23 Community activities /14 Aug 20 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.Read more INCF teams up with Neuromatch Academy and NeuroHackademy to provide training platforms for thousands of virtual participants Community activities /10 Jul 20 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. Read more Postdoc and PhD positions in EU project on motor control and movement augmentation Jobs /03 Jul 20 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. Read more Importance of community reviews in the INCF standards and best practices endorsement process SBPs /20 May 20 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.Read more Call for community review of NIDM-Results SBPs /14 May 20 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.Read more Call for community review of NIX data model SBPs /14 May 20 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.Read more Submissions now open for the Best Negative Data Prize in neuroscience Community activities /07 May 20 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.Read more NISO Reproducibility Badges Working Group is looking for input Community activities /07 May 20 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.Read more 21 INCF projects have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2020 Community activities /05 May 20 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. Read more The Neuromatch Academy - Online computational neuroscience training event Community activities /22 Apr 20 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. Read more Call for mentors to join us in GSoD 2020 Community activities /15 Apr 20 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 activitiesRead more 8th Annual NWB User Days Workshop News /14 Apr 20 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.Read more Perspective: Why we selected to undergo the INCF endorsement process SBPs /14 Apr 20 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. Read more Neurotechnologies for Brain-Machine Interface Standards Roadmap Now Available for Public Comments! Community activities /05 Mar 20 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.Read more Success story: International collaboration through INCF seed funding Success stories /05 Mar 20 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.Read more INCF special interest event at FENS Forum Community activities /30 Jan 20 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.Read more The International Brain Initiative News /27 Jan 20 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.Read more EITN spring school in Paris, 4 - 13 March2020 Community activities /22 Jan 20 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.Read more Call for students to join us in GSoC 2020 Community activities /14 Jan 20 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.Read more Call for Investigator Presentations for Neuroinformatics 2020 INCF Assembly /19 Dec 19 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 advancingRead more Brainhack Warsaw will take place at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics on March 27-29 Community activities /16 Dec 19 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 .Read more Call for Special Interest Groups early 2020 Community activities /11 Dec 19 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.Read more Google Summer of Code 2020 Community activities /11 Dec 19 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 ([email protected]) latest end of December.Read more NeuroImage special issue on reproducibility News /05 Dec 19 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.Read more Why you should join INCF News /03 Dec 19 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?Read more INCF successfully concludes pilot Season of Docs News /02 Dec 19 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!Read more Human Brain Project (HBP) public event in Heidelberg, Germany on November 25. Community activities /25 Nov 19 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 thRead more Open MR hackathon in Netherlands, January 21-23 2020 Community activities /22 Nov 19 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.Read more Announcement: Stockholm Brainhack November 21(22) Community activities /20 Nov 19 There will be a Brainhack hackathon Nov 21 (possibly also 22), in conjunction with INCFs CodeRefinery Workshop at KI, 19-21/11.Read more Computational Neuroscience Research Scientist position open Jobs /12 Nov 19 Computational Neuroscience Research Scientist position available at Krembil Research Institute/Toronto Western Hospital.Read more Call for contributions to special Multiscale Modeling issue of JNM Community activities /12 Nov 19 Senior Lecturer and Co-editor KongFatt Wong-Lin calls for contributions to a Special Issue on Multiscale Modelling and Analysis in Read more New BIDS Steering Group announced Community activities /11 Nov 19 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!Read more INCF at SfN19 Conference /08 Nov 19 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.Read more GSoc Mentor Summit, Munich, Oct 17-20 Community activities /04 Nov 19 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.Read more INCF is announcing new memberships, new portal, and a new video! News /11 Oct 19 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 seRead more Call for community review: Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) 2.0 - a data standard for neurophysiology as an INCF-endorsed standard Community activities /11 Oct 19 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.Read more INCF at SfN 2019 in Chicago! Conference /06 Oct 19 INCFwill be present as exhibitor at Neuroscience 2019in 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 booth2117!Read more BIDS and the NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM) Commentaries /24 Sep 19 The following statement is designed to clarify the complementary nature of the Brain Imaging Data Structure(BIDS) and the NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM).Read more Postdoctoral Scholar - Keator Laboratory Jobs /27 Aug 19 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.Read more INCF announced the 2019 Assembly in Warsaw Poland INCF Assembly /01 Jan 19 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.Read more The official launch of TrainingSpace! News /21 Dec 18 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.Read more NeuroML Success stories /21 Dec 18 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. Read more Call for SIGs/WGs to meet in Warsaw at the INCF Assembly 2019 INCF Workshops /20 Dec 18 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.Read more Neurobot gets good reviews at the TBI Data Analytics Workshop News /21 Dec 16 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.Read more Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) Success stories /21 Dec 16 BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) was developed to give the community a simple and easy to adopt way of organizing neuroimaging and behavioral data.Read more Community Survey on QC/QA in neuroimaging News /21 Dec 16 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.Read more New global brain consortium at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health News /21 Dec 16 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.Read more Nature Journals adopt RRID News /21 Dec 16 From October 15th, 2018, Nature Publishing Group has updated their instructions to authors to include Research Resource IDs (RRIDs). Read more New version of NeuroMorpho released - 100K digital reconstructions available! News /21 Dec 16 Version 7.6 of NeuroMorpho.Org, which passed the landmark milestone of 100,000 publicly shared digital reconstructions, was released on November 27. Read more INCF now endorses SBPs! News /21 Dec 16 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.Read more The Brain Summit 2018 Community activities /21 Dec 16 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.Read more Sign up for our newsletter About INCF KnowledgeSpace TrainingSpace Neurostars Contact us Cookies Feedback Enabling open and FAIR neuroscience © Copyright @ 2022 International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). All Rights Reserved.