Introduction to the Neuroscience Gateway Workshop
Introduction to the Neuroscience Gateway Workshop When: 10:00 – 12:00 PDT, 14 Mar, 2013 This workshop introduces participants to the Neuroscience Gateway (NSG), which is being developed for the...
View ArticleHow to define an Action Potential?
Dear electrophysiologists, If you could spare about 5 minutes of your time, the INCF electrophysiology task force is attempting to survey the landscape of definitions of the action potential. The main...
View ArticleCall for papers: Frontiers in Neuroinformatics special topic “Recent advances...
Call for papers: *Frontiers in Neuroinformatics special topic *“Recent advances and the future generation of neuroinformatics infrastructure” Topic Editor(s): *Xi Cheng*, *Daniel R. Weinberger*,...
View ArticleCall for INCF Abstract Submissions
6th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics in Stockholm, Sweden August 27 – 29, 2013 Call for abstract submissions Neuroinformatics 2013 is now accepting abstracts, submission this year is hosted by...
View ArticleTop 25 for March
Top 25 Databases: 1. Grants.gov/Opportunity 2. AntibodyRegistry/ABs 3. BioNOT/Negation 4. ABCD/Brain Regions 5. AmiGO/Genes 6. BCBC/ABs 7. BioGRID/Interactions 8. NIF Registry/Info 9. AddGene/Plasmids...
View ArticleNature seeing a trend?
Although the pace of science often seems glacial, returning from the Beyond the PDF2 meeting, I have been struck at how much scientific publishing has changed in the last 18 months, since the first...
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 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...
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 ArticleCongratulations to Phil Bourne, the New NIH Director for Data Science!
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News Office of the Director (OD) <http://www.nih.gov/icd/od/> For Immediate Release: Monday, December 9, 2013...
View ArticleRegister now for Annotating all Knowledge #FORCE2016
Greetings SciCrunch/NIF Community! Please read below for a message from Maryann Martone regarding the upcoming “Annotating all Knowledge” event! Join us for the kick off face to face meeting for the...
View ArticleIf at first you do succeed: Publish a Replication Report with #RRIDs anyway!
Science is the act of trying and trying again, whether or not we confirm what we think should be happening. Begely and Ellis in their 2012 paper from Amgen stated that only about 11% of cancer studies...
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FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute
ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF THE NEW FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute July 30 – August 4, 2017 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA USA FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications...
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