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Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF)

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The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF; http://neuinfo.org; Gardner et al. 2008) is currently managed, maintained, and hosted by researchers in the Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) at the University of California, San Diego. The NIF system has grown since 2008 from a modest catalog of 300 resources developed during the first phase of NIF to the largest source of neuroscience resources on the web. As defined here, resources include data, databases, software/web-based tools, materials, literature, networks, or information that would accelerate the pace of neuroscience research and discovery.

The current NIF system was developed to provide practical approaches for finding, searching, and integrating biomedical resources of relevance to neuroscience, including:

  • A biomedical resource catalog for both data and tools (Cachat et al. 2012)

  • A public-federated biomedical data repository (Fig. 1)

  • An ontology for neuroscience (Imam et al. 2012)

  • A unique and flexible technology...

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  1. Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Maryann E. Martone

  2. NIF Project Lead, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Dr. Anita Bandrowski

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  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Martone, M.E., Bandrowski, A. (2013). Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF). In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_459-1

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