Standards and Best Practices organisation for open and FAIR neuroscience
Standards and best practices
INCF serves as a standards organization dedicated to
open and FAIR neuroscience
Active collaboration
In our Working Groups, users and developers
work collaboratively to develop and refine community standards.
Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
INCF is a 2021 GSoC mentoring organization.
Between 2016 and 2019, INCF paired 66 students with 80 mentors.
INCF Neuroinformatics Training Weeks 2021
Dates: 23 August - 3 September 2021
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A standards organization for open and FAIR neuroscience
The mission of INCF is to develop, evaluate, and endorse standards and best practices that embrace the principles of Open, FAIR, and Citable neuroscience. INCF also provides training on how standards and best practices facilitate reproducibility and enables the publishing of the entirety of research output, including data and code.
INCF serves as a standards organization dedicated to open and FAIR neuroscience by vetting, endorsing, and promoting the use of community standards and best practices.
In our Working Groups, users and developers work collaboratively to develop community standards and best practices and implement them in tools and resources.
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Be a part of the global INCF community: form or join a Working Group, join one of our committees, attend our events, become a member, or stay in touch virtually.
INCF Assembly
The INCF neuroinformatics conference provides a forum for researchers, infrastructure providers, and developers to connect and train or be trained in neuroinformatics.
INCF provides informatics educational resources for the global neuroscience community both online and through in-person courses and workshops at the INCF Assembly.
In these stories from our community, you can read about how INCF-endorsed standards and best practices have improved collaborative projects by increasing interoperability.
Why INCF?
Here is a short video describing the purpose of the INCF network, our activities and, why you should get involved. Thanks to the INCF community members who have contributed towards developing this video.
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IBI working group publishes paper calling for international data governance
Community activities / 27 Jan 22
INCF has been an active member of the IBI for several years, and Maryann Martone, chair of the INCF Governing Board, is also the co-chair of the IBI Data Standards and Sharing Working Group. In December 2021 the working group's task force on International Data Governance published a paper describing issues and possible solutions for brain data governance.
Recommendations for repositories and scientific gateways from a neuroscience perspective
During 2021, the INCF Infrastructure Committee has focused on developing a set of recommendations and associated criteria for choosing or setting up and running a repository or scientific gateway. A manuscript giving the rationale for the recommendations has been submitted, and is now available as a preprint on arXiv.
Long-running GSoC project on image segmentation results in a paper
Success stories / 11 Jan 22
One of INCF's longest running GSoC projects, Active Segmentation for ImageJ, has resulted in a paper. ImageJ is an open source Java image processing program extensively used in life sciences. The program was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins.
Neuroinformatics in Aging WG outputs
Community activities / 20 Dec 21
The INCF Working Group on Neuroinformatics in Aging was formed in reaction to the observation that countries in Asia Pacific face a major societal burden due to decline in mental abilities and health of the rapidly aging population.
INCF calls for mentors and project ideas for GSoC 2022
INCF calls for mentors and project ideas for GSoC 2022. INCF has participated in the program since 2011 as a mentoring organization--identifying and recruiting mentors from our community who volunteer to mentor one or more candidates in open source software development over the summer.
INCF endorses Five Recommendations for FAIR Software as a Best Practice
SBPs / 01 Dec 21
The Five Recommendations for FAIR Software aim to encourage the greater adoption of FAIR principles by providing a set of starting recommendations that researchers can use to improve the quality, reach, and reproducibility of their software.
Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Neuroscience
Jobs / 27 Oct 21
Applications are invited for Flatiron Research Fellowships (FRF) at the Center for Computational Neuroscience. The CCN FRF program offers the opportunity for postdoctoral research in areas that have strong synergy with one or more of the existing research groups at CCN or other centers at the Flatiron Institute.
An ultra detailed map of the motor cortex, from mice to monkeys to humans
News / 07 Oct 21
An initial effort has now been made by the BICCN network to make the most comprehensive and detailed map ever of any brain area; a map of the motor cortex and the cells it contains. More than 250 persons at more than 45 institutions across 3 continents have studied the area using an array of complementary methods. The resulting 17 papers are now being simultaneously published in Nature.
New Job Posting: Scientific Software Engineer
The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, investigates the attentional, cognitive, and affective mechanisms of aesthetic perception and evaluation. The Department of Neuroscience invites applications for a Scientific Software Engineer (m/f/x).
INCF re-endorses NeuroML, BIDS and PyNN
SBPs / 27 Sep 21
The INCF endorsement process for standards and best practices has been active for more than two years. This means our earliest endorsed standards are now up for re-endorsement! This month, INCF re-endorsed the model description language NeuroML. Earlier this summer, INCF also re-endorsed the standards BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) and PyNN.
New Working Group: INCF WG on ARTEM-IS
Community activities / 21 Sep 21
The new ARTEM-IS Working Group aims to develop tools for the ARTEM-IS standard for electrophysiological methods reporting. ARTEM-IS is short for an Agreed Reporting Template for EEG Methodology - International Standard and is designed to make reporting EEG methodology easier and more accurate, by providing specific fields for specific details.
It's still open science week!
News / 16 Sep 21
INCF facilitates open neuroscience by 1) developing, vetting, and promoting FAIR standards and best practices, and 2) providing training in how to implement these standards and best practices on your own research. The purpose is to make neuroscience more open and FAIR, to ensure that research funds and efforts are well invested, and that neuroscientific findings are robust and replicable.
It's open science week!
Of course, over here at INCF, every week is open science week -- open neuroscience, to be more specific -- and we believe that all branches of science should be open.
INCF successfully completes its 11th Google Summer of Code
INCF has successfully concluded its 11th season of the Google Summer of Code, with 21 students completing their projects over the summer, mentored by more than 40 mentors from the INCF community.
A clinical neuroimaging platform built on community standards
A collaboration between French researchers and clinicians has leveraged the BIDS (the Brain Imaging Data Structure) standard for neuroimaging datasets and the tool ecosystem that has developed around BIDS to build an easy-to-use neuroimaging data analysis platform for those who conduct clinical neuroscience studies.
Summer project collaboration between INCF and Mathworks
Community activities / 30 Aug 21
This summer Mathworks and INCF have in collaboration completed a pilot engaging students as trainees to work on MATLAB neuroscience toolboxes. The projects were 8 weeks long, starting in late June.
Application Scientist with focus on Neuroscience / Neuroimaging - Biomax Informatics AG
Jobs / 06 Jul 21
To strengthen the project management department, Biomax Informatics AG is looking for an Application Scientist with focus on Neuroscience / Neuroimaging for the location in Planegg near Munich as soon as possible.
Interview with Falk Lüsebrink, creator of a unique, 10-year BIDS data set
Success stories / 21 Jun 21
"Publicly available data is at the heart of open science" - Interview with Falk Lüsebrink, creator of a unique, 10-year BIDS data set.
INCF Workshops / 17 Jun 21
INCF is proud to announce its first virtual training event! The INCF Training Weeks are scheduled to take place from August 23 to September 3rd. There will be practical, interactive workshops on topics like cloud computing, Neurodata Without Borders (NWB), data and metadata management with NIX, and DataJoint elements, and tutorials on using standards such as NeuroML, BIDS, and NIDM tools.
New INCF Working Group: INCF/OCNS Software WG
Community activities / 01 Jun 21
The Software Working Group is a joint collaboration between INCF and the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS). The working group focuses on evaluating and improving computational neuroscience tools: finding them, testing them, learning how they work, and informing developers of issues to ensure that these tools remain in good shape by having communities looking after them.
INCF staff walk the Neuropromenaden to benefit research on neurological diseases
Community activities / 31 May 21
For this year's Neuro walk (Neuropromenaden), the whole INCF secretariat joined up as Team Neuroinformagicians, and walked over 500 kilometers together, while enjoying the Swedish spring.
10+ years of Brainhack: an open, inclusive culture for neuro tool developers at all levels
Brainhacks and similar formats are increasingly recognized as a new way of providing academic training and conducting research that extends traditional settings. There is a new paper out in Neuron, by 200+ authors, describing the format and what makes it valuable to the community. This post aims to highlight some of the core themes of the paper.
The critical window for becoming a FAIR researcher
Commentaries / 19 Apr 21
Commentary on the critical window for becoming a FAIR researcher by Heidi Kleven and Ingvild E. Bjerke, Neural Systems Laboratory, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
2021 ISI/WSC Summer Course: Data Science and Predictive Analytics (June 16-17, 2021)
Conference / 02 Apr 21
A 2-day Summer Course on Data Science and Predictive Analytics including computational neuroscience applications. Intermediate to advanced data science training including collecting, managing, processing, interrogating, analyzing and interpreting complex health and biomedical datasets using R. Participants will gain skills and acquire a tool-chest of methods, software tools, and protocols that can be applied to a broad spectrum of Big Data problems.
Ten summers with Google Summer of Code
Community activities / 19 Mar 21
This past summer, 1199 students from 66 countries were accepted into the 2020 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program, working with nearly two hundred organizations on developing open source software. The program accepts students from all over the world, who receive stipends to write code - according to a self-defined project plan - for various open source software projects. 21 students worked with INCF's mentors in various neuro-related research tool projects.
Call for community review: Five Recommendations for FAIR Software, guidelines that aim to apply the FAIR principles to software
The Five Recommendations for FAIR software were submitted to INCF for endorsement as a Best Practice and is now open for community review, an important step in the endorsement process. Please visit F1000 Call for Community Feedback on Five Recommendations for FAIR Software to comment.
Researcher (Joint Position with NYU CNS), Center for Computational Neuroscience
Jobs / 04 Mar 21
The Center for Neural Science (https://www.cns.nyu.edu/) at New York University (NYU), jointly with the Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation, invites applications for an open rank joint position, with a preference for junior or mid-career candidates.
Community activities / 17 Feb 21
The Google Summer of Code is a long-running program sponsored by Google where students get a stipend for pursuing coding projects in open source. INCF has participated in the program since 2011 as a mentoring organization.
New publication in Neuroinformatics by members of the INCF community!
Springer Link has just published a Neuroinformatics article on INCF. The article was written by the members of the INCF community, and describes the importance for standardization in data science and the role that INCF plays in the process.
INCF partners with INS to disseminate neuroethics education
As a part of our efforts to make available educational materials in neuroethics, we are proud to announce our partnership with the International Neuroethics Society (INS) to disseminate a webinar series covering a range of neuroethics topics.
Call for community review of the DAQCORD Guidelines
SBPs / 19 Jan 21
Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the DAQCORD Guidelines - a framework for achieving high-quality data by providing a descriptive system for planning and reporting observational studies. This is a part of INCF's Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the best practice being reviewed provides value to the community.
NIX data model: our newest endorsed standard!
SBPs / 17 Nov 20
The NIX Format - a model for storing annotated datasets across a variety of disciplines - has been endorsed by INCF!
INCF receives $200,000 grant from the Dana Foundation for developing TrainingSpace
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) has received a grant of $200,000 over two years from the Dana Foundation to support development and curation of educational materials in neuroethics for the INCF TrainingSpace.
Seeking individuals to help develop a standardized format for exchanging computational models
An NSF-funded multi-investigator collaboration is seeking individuals to help develop a standardized format for exchanging computational models among neuroscience, cognitive science and machine learning.
BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Special Call
BrainsCAN is inviting applications from outstanding neuroscientists who identify with an underrepresented group (including Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+, people with disabilities, and women) for 10 available postdoctoral positions.
OHBM Hackathon 2020 Report for sponsors
INCF has supported the OHBM Open Science SIG and Hackathon since its inception in 2012, and is happy to play a part to ensure their continued success. Below you can read the report from the 2020 edition of the OHBM Brainhac.
The HBP Calls for Expression of Interest
News / 31 Aug 20
Do you have an idea for a new project that will contribute to developing neuroscience research infrastructure? Will it also have an impact on the scope of that infrastructure? You should check out The Human Brain Project Calls for Expression of Interest (CEoIs)!
Meet our company members!
Have you considered membership at INCF? We support, develop & promote standards & best practices to make life easier for neuroscientists. Members get benefits: discounts to events, products & services, funding, & a voice in decisions for global open & FAIR neuro strategies.
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INCF 3.0: Leading the way to open and FAIR neuroscience
Our most recent newsletter, Issue 2 2020, has been published. The quarterly INCF email newsletter offers updates on neuroscience and neuroinformatics activities, and the latest news from INCF and its community.
Why join INCF?
Membership in INCF gives you a voice in the discussions around standardization, training, and open science by either direct or elected representation on our different councils and committees. Other benefits include discounts to events, products, and services, and the possibility to acquire funding for developing standards and best practices.
Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) User Days Workshop, September 21-23
The NWB Team will host the 9th NWB User Days Workshop remotely on September 21-23. The workshop will focus primarily on user training, including lessons for complete beginners to NWB and training in more advanced usage of NWB.
INCF teams up with Neuromatch Academy and NeuroHackademy to provide training platforms for thousands of virtual participants
Community activities / 10 Jul 20
INCF is always looking for ways to support neuroscience training activities, and we are very happy to provide the INCF training platforms to support two large training initiatives taking place this summer: the Neuromatch Academy and the NeuroHackademy.
Postdoc and PhD positions in EU project on motor control and movement augmentation
Multiple postdoc and PhD positions are available in the labs of Carsten Mehring (University of Freiburg), Domenico Formica and Giovanni di Pino (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) as well as Dario Farina and Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London), on motor control and movement augmentation, in the context of the EU project NIMA.
Importance of community reviews in the INCF standards and best practices endorsement process
SBPs / 20 May 20
Community review helps to optimize new Standards and Best Practices (SBPs) by allowing those who will use them to highlight areas of improvement before the SBPs are accepted.
Call for community review of NIDM-Results
Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the NIDM-Results - a model for standardizing neuroimaging analysis results. This is a part of INCF's Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the standard being reviewed provides value to the community.
Call for community review of NIX data model
Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the NIX Format - a model for storing annotated datasets across a variety of disciplines. This is a part of INCF's Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the standard being reviewed provides value to the community.
Submissions now open for the Best Negative Data Prize in neuroscience
The Best Negative Data Prize was created in 2018 to incentivise researchers to publish their negative results. Submissions are open from Apr 7 to May 31, 2020 for this year's award of €10,000 which was generously sponsored by Cohen Veterans Bioscience.
NISO Reproducibility Badges Working Group is looking for input
The NISO Taxonomy, Definitions, and Recognition Badging Scheme Working Group has drafted a standard for the names and definitions of reproducibility levels within the computational and computing sciences.
21 INCF projects have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2020
We are excited to announce the 21 INCF projects that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2020! Stay tuned for more content on GSoC, including mentor profiles and posts detailing each project.
The Neuromatch Academy - Online computational neuroscience training event
Community activities / 22 Apr 20
Open, online, 3-week intensive tutorial-based computational neuroscience training event (July 13-31, 2020). Participants from undergraduate to professors as well as industry are welcome.
Call for mentors to join us in GSoD 2020
Since the first Google Season of Docs (GSoD) in 2019, the INCF network has served as a mentoring organization providing mentors from the neuroinformatics community. Before the organization applications are due, we are soliciting ideas for projects that are aligned with INCF community activities
8th Annual NWB User Days Workshop
News / 14 Apr 20
8th Annual NWB User Days Workshop which will be held remotely May 12-15. The focus will be primarily on user training, including lessons for complete beginners as well as training in more advanced features. There will be breakout sessions where the developers of NWB-enabled tools will train users in how to use NWB to access state-of-the-art analysis and visualization tools.
Perspective: Why we selected to undergo the INCF endorsement process
SBPs / 14 Apr 20
Partnership with the INCF has enabled us to connect with our user-base on a global scale. Submitting NWB to the Supported Best Practice (SBP) program was a clear next step in our partnership. The SBP review process provides valuable information for both the community as well as the NWB team.
Neurotechnologies for Brain-Machine Interface Standards Roadmap Now Available for Public Comments!
This roadmap provides an overview of the existing and developing standards in the field of neurotechnologies for brain-machine interfacing. The focus is on systems that provide a closed-loop interaction with artificial devices based on information extracted from measurements of activity in the nervous system.
Success story: International collaboration through INCF seed funding
Success stories / 05 Mar 20
The developers of the Marmoset Connectivity Atlas have published a paper describing the resource in Nature Communications. The Marmoset Connectivity Atlas is the result of a collaboration between the INCF Polish and Australian Nodes that was facilitated by the INCF seed funding scheme.
INCF special interest event at FENS Forum
This event is designed to inform the community of the brain data-driven efforts in the international arena, and open the discussion as to how we can combine our resources to achieve greater international cooperation in openly sharing data, AI and best practices - to enable us all to move forward synergistically.
The International Brain Initiative
News / 27 Jan 20
A new NeuroView paper in Neuron describes the International Brain Initiative, IBI, a consortium of big brain projects across the world who aim to coordinate efforts across existing and emerging national and regional brain initiatives. IBI was established in recognition of the fact that no single initiative will be able to tackle the challenge to better understand the brain.
EITN spring school in Paris, 4 - 13 March2020
Do you want to learn how to model the brain and its parts? The European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) offers a spring school in Paris on theoretical and computational neuroscience.
Call for students to join us in GSoC 2020
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Since 2011, the INCF network has served as a mentoring organization providing mentors from the neuroinformatics community.
Call for Investigator Presentations for Neuroinformatics 2020
INCF Assembly / 19 Dec 19
The Program Committee for the INCF Congress on Neuroinformatics 2020 (Seattle, USA, 20 - 21 August 2020) is soliciting proposals for investigator presentations to complement keynote presentations from leaders in the field. Investigator presentations should explore the latest developments, challenges/opportunities, and the role of standards and best practices in advancing
Brainhack Warsaw will take place at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics on March 27-29
Brainhack Warsaw aims to meet new, enthusiastic researchers, make new friendships in academia, learn, share the knowledge and also promote open science in the spirit of the whole Brainhack community .
Call for Special Interest Groups early 2020
INCF is calling for community proposals for Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to be formed or renewed in early 2020. The call is open both to new and existing INCF SIGs.
INCF will apply for GSoC 2020 and are now assembling mentors and ideas for projects. If you want to join us, email your project idea(s) to Malin Sandström (malin@incf.org) latest end of December.
NeuroImage special issue on reproducibility
News / 05 Dec 19
The latest issue of the journal NeuroImage is a special issue on reproducibility in MRI, led by Russell A.Poldrack, Kirstie Whitake and David Kennedy.
Why you should join INCF
INCF has reshaped as organization to a new, member-based model. Now you can be a member in INCF, both as an individual or as an organization or company. So why join?
INCF successfully concludes pilot Season of Docs
INCF has had two projects in the first ever Google Season of Docs, one with Canadian platform LORIS and one with OpenWorm. The tech writer working with LORIS, Alex Knoll, has described her project and experiences in a blog post - we recommend anyone interested in Season of Docs to read it!
Human Brain Project (HBP) public event in Heidelberg, Germany on November 25.
Community activities / 25 Nov 19
The Human Brain Project's unique goal is to interconnect computer science, medicine and neuroscience to accelerate the understanding of the human brain and its diseases, and to harness th
Open MR hackathon in Netherlands, January 21-23 2020
For the second time OpenMR Benelux organizes a meeting concerning open MRI science. OpenMR Benelux 2020 will be hosted at the Donders Institute for Cognition, Brain and Behaviour in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 21-23 January, 2020.
Announcement: Stockholm Brainhack November 21(22)
There will be a Brainhack hackathon Nov 21 (possibly also 22), in conjunction with INCFs CodeRefinery Workshop at KI, 19-21/11.
Computational Neuroscience Research Scientist position open
Jobs / 12 Nov 19
Computational Neuroscience Research Scientist position available at Krembil Research Institute/Toronto Western Hospital.
Call for contributions to special Multiscale Modeling issue of JNM
Senior Lecturer and Co-editor KongFatt Wong-Lin calls for contributions to a Special Issue on Multiscale Modelling and Analysis in
New BIDS Steering Group announced
The BIDS community has voted in a Steering Group of five candidates, chosen as a slate. The slate chosen is the Guiomar Niso chaired slate with Melanie Ganz, Robert Oostenveld, Russ Poldrack, and Kirstie Whitaker!
INCF at SfN19
Conference / 08 Nov 19
INCF had a booth at SfN 2019 in Chicago, held on October 19–23. The booth space was used for demos of INCF community projects and tools, among them Neurodata Without Borders, NITRC, ReproNim, g-node's NIX, the BIDS standard and the INCF-developed tool Neurobot.
GSoc Mentor Summit, Munich, Oct 17-20
INCF Community Engagement officer Malin Sandström has administered INCF's partition in Google Summer of Code for 6 years, but never visited the yearly GSoC Mentor Summit.
INCF is announcing new memberships, new portal, and a new video!
INCF has worked hard in the past months to optimize the services we provide to the neuroscience community, and we're finally ready to announce the improvements we have done in order to se
Call for community review: Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) 2.0 - a data standard for neurophysiology as an INCF-endorsed standard
Community activities / 11 Oct 19
NWB:N 2.0 is a data standard for neurophysiology, providing neuroscientists with a common standard to share, archive, use, and build common analysis tools for neurophysiology data.
INCF at SfN 2019 in Chicago!
Conference / 06 Oct 19
INCF will be present as exhibitor at Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL, October 19-23. As usual, we will be co-located with a number of other neuroinformatics exhibitors, and we will host demos from our member countries and other INCF-associated projects. Come find us in booth 2117!
BIDS and the NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM)
Commentaries / 24 Sep 19
The following statement is designed to clarify the complementary nature of the Brain Imaging Data Structure(BIDS) and the NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM).
Postdoctoral Scholar - Keator Laboratory
Jobs / 27 Aug 19
A Postdoctoral Scholar position is available in the Keator lab in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine campus.
INCF announced the 2019 Assembly in Warsaw Poland
INCF Assembly / 01 Jan 19
The annual INCF Congress provides a meeting place for researchers in all fields related to neuroinformatics. Join us for keynotes from top neuroscientists, community sessions and poster- and demo sessions.
The official launch of TrainingSpace!
INCF is proud to announce the official launch of TrainingSpace (TS), an online hub that aims to make neuroscience educational materials more accessible to the global neuroscience community developed in collaboration with INCF, HBP, SfN, FENS, IBRO, CONP, IEEE, BD2K, and iNeuro Initiative.
NeuroML
Success stories / 21 Dec 18
The NeuroML project focuses on standard descriptions of neuroscience model components, in the form of development of an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based description language that provides a common data format for defining and exchanging descriptions of neuronal cell and network models.
Call for SIGs/WGs to meet in Warsaw at the INCF Assembly 2019
INCF Workshops / 20 Dec 18
INCF is calling for community proposals for Special Interest Group (SIG) and Working Group (WG) meetings to be held in Warsaw on August 31, the day before the Neuroinformatics Congress. The call is open both to new and existing INCF SIGs/WGs.
Neurobot gets good reviews at the TBI Data Analytics Workshop
Neurobot is a clinical study data management tool developed by INCF. CENTER-TBI, a large European project that aims to improve the care for patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the first study using Neurobot and it was customised based on the feedback from researchers in the project.
Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)
BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) was developed to give the community a simple and easy to adopt way of organizing neuroimaging and behavioral data.
Community Survey on QC/QA in neuroimaging
The INCF Special Interest Group on Neuroimaging Quality Control (niQC) has developed a survey to get a sense of various types of QC/QA that is done in the neuroimaging community.
New global brain consortium at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health
A new $10-million investment from the Ludmer Family Foundation will establish the Ludmer Centre Heritage Fund and help launch and support a Global Brain Consortium of leading brain research institutions focused on sharing infrastructure, methodologies and results, ultimately accelerating treatment for patients.
Nature Journals adopt RRID
From October 15th, 2018, Nature Publishing Group has updated their instructions to authors to include Research Resource IDs (RRIDs).
New version of NeuroMorpho released - 100K digital reconstructions available!
Version 7.6 of NeuroMorpho.Org, which passed the landmark milestone of 100,000 publicly shared digital reconstructions, was released on November 27.
INCF now endorses SBPs!
We are very excited to start off 2018 by further developing our aim to promote the neuroinformatics field and advance data reuse and reproducibility in brain research according to FAIR principles.
The Brain Summit 2018
INCF and the CTSI are organizing The Brain Summit 2018: "Towards the alignment of the large-scale brain initiatives in support of clinical data", a symposium with emphasis on coordination and alignment of efforts.