The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility: Cyber-infrastructure for Global Neuroinformatics

Information

• NSF Award
• 0733492

Owner

• KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE

• Award Id

  0733492

• Award Effective Date

  10/1/2007 - 17 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  9/30/2011 - 13 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 1,400,000.00

• Award Instrument

  Continuing grant

0733492<br/>Bjaalie<br/><br/>This non-research award provides four years of U.S. support for membership in the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), a multilateral organization headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. INCF is a coordinated, international scientific effort to create a portal for navigation and integration of distributed resources within different domains of neurosciences. Thirteen nations so far (Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States) and the European Commission are members. The new services provided by INCF will contribute to improved access and integration of data and transfer of knowledge between levels of organization, and a more rapid development of realistic models of brain functions. INCF's Neuroinformation Community Portal will provide an interoperable network of neuroscience databases and related software tools. In addition, INCF will offer tested and validated work flows, with defined inputs and outputs, and tutorials and instructions for making use of such work flows for data analysis. The initial four years will concentrate on large-scale modeling of the nervous system, mouse and rat brain digital atlasing, integration of fMRI data resource, and neuroanotomical nomenclature and taxonomy. <br/><br/>Broader Impacts: Brain and nervous system studies for the long-term benefit of society require integration of heterogeneous and complex data collected at multiple levels of investigation. That capability is provided by INCF, a critical global network to advance knowledge and understanding of basic brain functions, devastating diseases of the nervous system, and neural processing as applied to information sciences and development of artificial systems. The INCF is a novel, internationally-funded infrastructure taking advantage of multiple levels of expertise in neuroinformatics - across boundaries, scientific domains, private and public sectors, methodologies and approaches.

• Program Officer

  Vanessa Richardson

• Min Amd Letter Date

  9/18/2007 - 17 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  11/9/2010 - 14 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Karolinska Institutet

• City

  Stockholm

• Country

  Sweden

• Address

  Nobels Vaeg 5

• Postal Code

  171 77

• Phone Number

  0852480000

• First Name

  Jan

• Last Name

  Bjaalie

• Email Address

  jan.bjaalie@incf.se

• Start Date

  9/18/2007 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  07/02/2009

• First Name

  Sten

• Last Name

  Grillner

• Email Address

  Sten.Grillner@ki.se

• Start Date

  11/9/2010 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Sten

• Last Name

  Grillner

• Email Address

  Sten.Grillner@ki.se

• Start Date

  9/18/2007 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  08/24/2010

• First Name

  Hui

• Last Name

  Wang

• Email Address

  hui.wang@incf.org

• Start Date

  7/2/2009 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  08/24/2010

• First Name

  Jeanette

• Last Name

  Hellgren Kotaleski

• Email Address

  jeanette@incf.org

• Start Date

  11/9/2010 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Data Banks

• Code

  102000

• Name

  Information Systems

• Code

  104000