INCF community blog
The INCF community blog is where we collect news, success stories, information about the INCF Assembly, our workshops, and community activities. Community members are encouraged to submit relevant job openings, write guest posts, review and recap events, and suggest content that they would like to see featured on the blog.
Do you have a success story related to neuroinformatics, standardization, or FAIR and open neuroscience? Are you hiring for a job related to neuroinformatics? Did you attend one of our events and want to do a write-up? Let us know in this form!
In a continuing effort to identify barriers to data sharing and reuse among neuroscience researchers worldwide, INCF’s Infrastructure Committee is redistributing a brief anonymous survey.
The INCF Infrastructure Portfolio encompasses a compilation of neuroscience data repositories and scientific gateways, based on the evaluation criteria established by the INCF Infrastructure Committee between 2020 and 2021, and as outlined in our 2022 Scientific Data article.
INCF is proud to announce InterLex as the newest addition to our Infrastructure Portfolio. InterLex models terms using primitives of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and can export directly to a variety of standard ontology formats.
INCF is happy to announce a new addition to our Infrastructure Portfolio, the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury (ODC-TBI). With almost 200 datasets and 16 DOIs from over 100 labs, ODC-TBI is a data-sharing portal and repository for traumatic brain injury (TBI) data.
INCF Standards and Best Practices Committee has developed our Standards and Best Practices (SBP) Portfolio, currently containing 12 endorsements, which are re-evaluated every two years. Continually at work to provide the neuroscience community with the most up-to-date, effective, and FAIR standards, the SBP Committee has recently endorsed three new standards!
INCF’s Standards and Best Practices Committee endorsed NetPyNE as a new standard. NetPyNE is an open-source Python package designed for the development, simulation, and analysis of biological neuronal networks.
INCF’s Standards and Best Practices Committee voted to endorse SWC as a new standard. SWC files (file extension of .swc) are text-based (ASCII text) files that describe three-dimensional neuronal or glial morphology.
The INCF Standards and Best Practices committee endorsed the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) data structure as a standard
We are happy to announce that INCF has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2024, for the 14th 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.
A recent editorial in Nature magazine about harmonizing between the large international brain initiatives stated that “Several of the projects are using similar or identical technologies. It makes sense for the teams to liaise more closely, at the very least to begin a discussion on how to establish shared data standards, which they have not yet done.”