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

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.”

The Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) invites applications for paid summer internship positions by motivated students in computational neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, machine learning, computer science or related fields.

INCF is asking for your help to review NetPyNE to assess its value as a community standard. NetPyNE is an open-source Python package designed for the development, simulation, and analysis of biological neuronal networks

We debuted our new collection of community resources at SfN 2023, and since we, for the first time ever at SfN, ran out of the printed collection we’re now sharing it here as well! This collection includes information on six key INCF tools and resources that help demystify and streamline the process of data sharing.