About INCF

What is the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility?

The INCF is a professional organization devoted to advancing the field of neuroinformatics. One of its aims is to develop an international neuroinformatics infrastructure, which promotes the sharing of data and computing resources to the international research community. A larger objective of the INCF is to help develop scalable, portable, and extensible applications that can be used by neuroscience laboratories worldwide.

What is Neuroinformatics?

Neuroinformatics combines data- and knowledge bases with the tools necessary for acquisition, analysis, and visualization of data; and theoretical, computational, and simulation environments for modeling.

What is the purpose of the INCF?

The vision of the INCF is to catalyze and coordinate the global development of neuroinformatics in the scientific community.

 The INCF is an international authority and has as its mission to foster scientific interaction through information flow within its global network; valuating neuroinformatics activities and infrastructures; and to facilitate training in neuroinformatics.

 The INCF has also identified its values, which include openness, neutrality and stability. We aim for global excellence through results, leadership and innovation.

 The INCF aims to implement its Vision, Mission and Values through:

• Our Core Activites: INCF Programs and Workshops
• Creating a worldwide network of people: The Neuroinformatics People Directory
• An Internet-based information infrastructure with community developed Research tools, and Neuroinformatics related Events, Training and Jobs