Top 25 for April
Its that time, we find out what have the users of NIF been searching for this month. Looks like antibodies and money are still winners, but some interesting things climbing to the top. The gene...
View ArticleHuman Brain Mapping Hackathon in 2013
With support from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Amazon Web Services, and numerous other contributors, the 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) will include...
View ArticleLab Data Management Practices?
A number of groups, from libraries and universities and academic projects are striving to implement flexible data management systems in order to harness the latest and greatest in semantic web...
View ArticleHow Do You Evaluate a Database
by Maryann E Martone I was speaking with a colleague recently who, like many of us, had experienced the frustration of trying to support his on-line resources. He has assembled a comprehensive on-line...
View ArticleWhat if scientists dropped the jargon?
This is a question asked by Alan Alda, a tireless advocate for clear communication of science to the public. He has been the host of the PBS series “Scientific American Frontiers” for many years and...
View ArticleNeuroinformatics summer school anyone?
*Stream Neuroscience, **VIII Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics” (AACIMP-2013)* The stream “Neuroscience” includes a broad range of topics...
View ArticleWe have A LOT of neuroscience information, and would like to share….
Over the past 4 years, the Neuroscience Information Framework systematically scanned the literature, internet and social buzz for all things neuroscience (& biomedical science). This tedious...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Formatting
Scene: It is 4 am in the morning and the grant is due the next day. You have 12 pages to tell a story that will determine whether or not you can pay your salary and support your lab next year. You...
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How long does it take to get a resource into NIF? The case of the open source...
Believe it or not, there really is a project called open source brain, and it is a wonderful community of hackers that attempts to do very novel things with open source models, mainly in a format...
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Cannabis in NIF’s Data Holdings
NIF was asked to give the National Institutes on Drug Abuse a report of the state of the data holdings for one abused substance: Cannabis. The report is included below. The data reflect the state of...
View ArticleThe experience of a bench scientist with open publishing.
I recently asked a bench scientist about her experiences in publishing in this very new mode of scholarly communication, i.e. in F1000Research, which is open access, has an open review process and is...
View ArticleTop 25 of June
It appears that the top search term is: database and the top database (no pun intended) is the Registry (of databases). Certainly a very interesting month. NIF Registry NIF Annotations Podcasts Open...
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There is a Link between literature and data, it has been there for years, but...
The NIH has had a recent request for information about the NIH data catalog to which our group and many others have responded. Many voices including fairly important ones from the white house are now...
View ArticleWhat is corporate authorship?
A new editorial in the journal of Neuroinformatics points out that we should probably have a way of handling credit that is different from authorship. Traditionally, scientific authorship has been...
View ArticleTop 20 – Publications – of the month!
At NIF we try to mix it up. Instead of bringing you the top databases this month, we thought that this may be of more interest. A heart-felt congratulations to the most annotated papers of all time! It...
View ArticleTop 25 search terms and databases of the month
Over the last 30 days we have seen a lot of people search for databases, with the most common search term “database” and the database of databases. Most frequently accessed databases: NIF Registry...
View ArticleBioCreative User Interactive Task – Request
The Neuroscience Information Framework is proud to support the BioCreative effort (http://www.biocreative.org) whose goal is bridging the gap between text mining and biocuration. One activity...
View ArticleResource Identification Guidelines – now at Elsevier
The problem of reproducibility of results has been addressed by many groups, as being due to scientists having very large data sets and highlighting the interesting, yet most likely statistically...
View Article2 computational neuroscience postdoc positions open at GMU
Postdoctoral Research Fellows George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Fairfax, Va. (USA), invites applications for several Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions available...
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NIF Hackathon Summary
San Diego, Calif., Aug. 19, 2013 — Approximately 30 programmers from around the country gathered recently for an intensive, two-day Hack-a-thon to improve the University of California, San Diego’s...
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