INCF Workshops
INCF Workshops deal with selected problems, including technical issues of primary importance for neuroinformatics, or research topics coupled to databasing of neuroscience data, tools developments, or modeling of nervous system functions.
Each workshop has about 15 invited participants, selected on the basis of their expert skills in the particular area of the workshop. INCF National Nodes are allowed to send observers. Each workshop delivers a formal report on current activities and recommended actions. The analyses and recommendations provided represent the basis for actions to be initiated by the INCF, and the possible launching of an INCF program delivering products, services, standards, and guidelines.
- 1st INCF workshop on Sustainability for Neuroscience Databases
The goal of this meeting was to discuss issues related with sustainability of neuroscience databases, to identify problems, to discuss solutions or approaches to these problems, and to formulate recommendations to the INCF.
Workshop Report in preparation - 1st INCF Workshop on Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and Taxonomy
The goal of this meeting was to agree on a general strategy for developing a systematic, useful, and scientifically appropriate framework for neuroanatomical nomenclature.
Workshop Report
Bota, Mihail and Swanson, Larry. Workshop report: 1st INCF Workshop on Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and Taxonomy. Available from Nature Precedings (2008).
- 1st INCF Workshop on Global Portal Services for Neuroscience
The goal of this meeting was to map out existing portal services for neuroscience, identify their features and future plans, and outline opportunities for synergistic developments.
Workshop Report
Van Pelt, Jaap and Shepherd, Gordon. Workshop report: 1st INCF Workshop on Global Portal Services for Neuroscience. Available from Nature Precedings (2008). - 1st INCF Workshop on Neuroimaging Database Integration
The goal of this meeting was to map existing neuroimaging databases, particularly databases containing primary data, and to identify mechanisms that could facilitate integrated use of such databases, including possible fusion of databases.
Workshop Report
Forsberg, Lars and Roland, Per. Workshop report: 1st INCF Workshop on NeuroImaging Database Integration. Available from Nature Precedings (2008).
- 1st INCF Workshop on Mouse and Rat Brain Digital Atlasing Systems
The goal of this meeting was to survey current activities and plans related to development of mouse and rat brain digital atlasing systems.
Workshop Report
Boline, Jyl, Hawrylycz, Michael, and Williams, Robert. Workshop report: 1st INCF Workshop on Mouse and Rat Brain Digital Atlasing Systems. Available from Nature Precedings (2007).
- 1st INCF Workshop on Large-Scale Modeling of the Nervous System
The goal of this workshop was to survey current demands and ongoing activities and plans relating to development of tools for scalable neural network simulations.
Workshop Report
Djurfeldt, Mikael and Lansner, Anders. Workshop report: 1st INCF Workshop on Large-Scale Modeling of the Nervous System. Available from Nature Precedings (2007).

