Community News Archive
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| 02 Jun 2010 | NHGRI Earmarks $5M for Informatics Development of Large-Scale Sequencing Program The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is setting aside around five percent of its large-scale sequencing program budget to support the development of informatics tools for sequence analysis. Several sequencing and informatics workshops gave strong, consistent recommendations to create robust, well-documented and well-supported informatics tools for sequence analysis. NHGRI plans to issue a request for applications for the program this fall, and expects to award the grants in the fall of 2011. Read Article [ Premium subscription required. ]View the recommendations for the NHGRI Large‐Scale Sequencing Program. |
| 01 Jun 2010 | NIH Seeks Public Response on Genetic Testing Regitry (GTR) The National Institutes of Health have opened a 30-day comment period on the planned Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) project. Once launched in 2011, the GTR will be a source of information for patients and healthcare providers alike on the various diagnostic tests and labs that are used in medicine today Read Article [Premium subscription required.] |
| 20 May 2010 | Allen Human Brain Atlas Launched The first release of the Allen Human Brain Atlas offers an initial collection of data and tools, and is comprised of two new and two pre-existing datasets. Additional data, brains, and more sophisticated database tools will be available in subsequent releases. The next data release is slated for October 28, 2010. This release will include additions to the Allen Human Brain Atlas and updated versions of other resources. Read more » |
| 14 May 2010 | Stanford University Curated Database on Human Variation A team of scientists from Stanford University are working with Pune and India-based software firm Optra Systems to build a large database of literature and public resources for analyzing variants linked to potential drug response and disease risks. Read Article [Premium subscription required.] |
| 14 May 2010 | EBI Launches European Nucleotide Archive Combining Three DNA and RNA Resources European Bioinformatics Institute launches the European Nucleotide Archive. The ENA holds more than 20 terabases of nucleotide sequences, taking up more than 230 terabytes of disk space. The ENA combines the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's Nucleotide Sequence Database, the European Trace Archive, and the Sequence Read Archive. Read Article [Premium subscription required.]
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| 23 Apr 2010 |
The 2009 report outlines INCF's many achievements during the last year, including the 2nd Neuroinformatics Congress and the development of several INCF Programs. Read the report » |
| 26 Apr 2010 | Microsoft Prepares for Launch of Open Source Bioinformatics Toolkit Microsoft announces plans to release an open source bioinformatics toolkit, the Microsoft Biology Foundation, by this summer. It will contain open source tools for manipulating DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, and will cross-talk with internet resources, such as NCBI's BLAST. Read more at Bioinform » |
| 23 Apr 2010 | EBI INCF 2010 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended (Closed April 28th, 2010) The 3rd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics will be held in Kobe, Japan from Aug 30 to Sept 1, 2010. For additional information on abstract submission and Congress registration, please visit the Congress website for a list of speakers and details about registration and attendance. Abstract submission closed April 28th, 2010 |
| 21 Apr 2010 | The Brain Revolution Conference In honor of 101 year old Nobel Laureate Rita Levi Montalcini, the Brain Revolution conference gathered some of the world's most prestigious neuroscientists and researchers in Rome on Friday, April 23, 2010. The conference aimed to advance research projects worldwide in human brain capacity, neurodegenerative syndromes and mental disorders. |
| 14 Apr 2010 | EBI Helsinki Team Creates Global Mapping of Human Gene Expression Researchers from the European Bioinformatic Institute and their colleagues from the University of Helsinki have integrated array data from more then 5,300 human samples, creating a massive dataset that is the first global "expression space" of human gene activity. Read article, view the correspondence article of this data set in Nature Biotechnology, or view the EMBL-EBI Press Release. |
| 06 Apr 2010 |
ODIE, or Ontology Development and Information Extraction,” is a project that aims to provide the functionality for building text processing pipelines that use ontologies to annotate documents. It also aims to enrich ontologies with new concepts that are automatically discovered in documents, and to populate information models automatically from information extracted from documents. The latest beta release (version 1.1) is now available for download. Read more » |
| 03 Apr 2010 |
XNAT, or EXtensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit, is an open source software platform designed to facilitate management and exploration of neuroimaging and related data. XNAT 1.4.0 was several years in the making, but now serves as a more comprehensive databasing system for labs, global data sharing, and site-wide data storage.Read more » |
| 29 Mar 2010 | Moral Judgments Altered by Disrupting Specific Brain Region MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can influence people’s moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region, the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). Read more » |
| 25 Mar 2010 | Long Tail in Search Ignored by Microsoft As Microsoft focuses on the head instead of the long tail in search, it means returned queries for popular sites, but failure for queries with smaller, lesser known resources.Read more » |
| 18 Mar 2010 | Beyond DSM: Seeking a Brain-Based Classification of Mental Illness Modern research in neuroscience and genetics has provided a more sophisticated understanding of mental illness, and harnessing this knowledge to improve the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders was a major impetus for undertaking a revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Read more » |
| 7 Mar 2010 | Methylphenidate facilitates learning-induced amygdala plasticity Although methylphenidate (Ritalin) has been used therapeutically for nearly 60 years, the mechanisms by which it acutely modifies behavioral performance are poorly understood. Read more » |
| 5 Mar 2010 | Slowly Maturing, Semantic Web Technologies Reach Pilot Project Stage in Pharma This issue of the Bioinform newsletter writes about the mounting interest of semantic (concept-based) approaches and its evolution in pharma informatics. Read more » |
| 1 Mar 2010 | Neural Advertising: The Sounds We Can't Resist If you're like most people, you're way too smart for advertising. Read more » |
| 24 Feb 2010 |
With no end in sight to the stand-off between Google and the Chinese government, Nature’s news team has surveyed scientists in China to find out how much they rely on Google – and what the consequences would be if they lost access to the search engine and its related products. Read more » |
| 10 Feb 2010 | Proposed Draft Revisions to the DSM Disorders and Criteria The American Psychiatric Association today released the proposed draft diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Read more » |
| 3 Feb 2010 |
Accessible Reproducible Research Scientists who are not themselves computational experts are conducting data analysis with a wide range of modular software tools and packages. Read more » |
| 16 Nov 2009 | INCF Promotes Further Development Of The Neurolex The NeuroLex Project, developed by the Neuroscience Information Framework, currently provides a growing lexicon of more than 8000 neuroscience terms, and is freely available to everyone to use, edit, and add to. It is a wiki-like resource that will help standardize the terminology used to describe the parts of the brain. Neurolex plays a key role in the INCF Program on Neural Ontologies, and INCF support of this initiative includes hosting of the testing and development server as well as interoperability efforts to link the site with, among others, the Waxholm Space Atlas and BrainInfo. |
| 9 Nov 2009 | Ontology Sharing at Science Commons OWL 2 – a standard web ontology language – was formally recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as part of their Semantic Web activity. Science Commons’ Alan Ruttenberg has been diligently working with the OWL working group specifying OWL 2 at the W3C to push this recommendation through. (Ruttenberg is the co-chair with Ian Horrocks at Oxford.) The W3C says that the transition to OWL 2 is a reflection of user experience with OWL, and the need to enable seamless integration and scalability. |
| 12 Oct 2009 | Enhancing the search for abstracts The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) National Node of Japan (J-Node) has developed a web-accessible tool, "Related Abstract Search", which allows for the retrieval of conference abstracts based on keyword searches. Explore the "Related Abstract Search Tool"» |
| 14 Aug 2009 | Join the SfN Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative Learn more about the Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative. Visit www.sfn.org/wikipedia. A new initiative has been launched to support SfN's mission of promoting public education about neuroscience through the power of Wikipedia. Read more » |
| 11 Aug 2009 | Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) Neuroscience researchers should definitely take a look at the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) site. Read more » |
| 30 Jun 2009 | The Charlesworth Group Helps Nature Publishing Group Semantically Enrich PDFs In partnership with Nature Publishing Group, specialist publishing services provider, the Charlesworth Group has completed a substantial project to incorporate eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata within online PDFs for the leading science Journal Nature. Read more » |
| 15 Apr 2009 | Scientists Challenged to Create Better Tools for Image Analysis - the DIADEM Challenge The Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University are launching an international scientific challenge to speed development of new computational tools that accurately and automatically reconstruct the "shape" of brain cells from available light microscopy data. Read more » |
