International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
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| Abbreviation | INCF |
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| Motto | Advancing global collaborative brain research. |
| Formation | 2005 |
| Headquarters | INCF Secretariat |
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| Coordinates | 59°20′54.46″N 18°1′25.78″E / 59.3484611°N 18.0238278°E |
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Executive Director
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Linda Lanyon |
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Governing Board Chair
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Keiji Tanaka |
| Website | incf |
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) is an international science organization. Its purpose is to facilitate worldwide cooperation of activities and infrastructures in neuroinformatics-related fields. It was established in 2005 by recommendations of the Global Science Forum working group of the OECD. The is hosted by the Karolinska Institutet in , Sweden. As of October 2015,[update] the INCF had national nodes in 18 member countries. The Executive Director is Linda Lanyon, and the Scientific Director is Sean Hill.
Demonstration projects have included the CoCoMac database, NEST simulation tool, SumsDB, NeuroScholar, and MUSIC. The INCF also hosts the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC), and it hosted the INCF Software Center from 2008 through 2016.
The INCF organizes an annual Neuroinformatics Congress whose location changes from year to year.
A key element to successfully understanding the nervous system is the integration of neuroscience with information sciences. The field that studies the nervous system, neuroscience, has responded to the fantastic challenge of understanding how our brain works with the use of the most sophisticated technologies, from studies on the genome to those on brain imaging of behaviour in humans and other species, under different functional states, and at all intervening analytical levels. This effort has resulted in large quantities of data, which are ever increasing at higher levels of complexity. The data produced are heterogeneous, coming from different levels of study and modalities of analysis. To rise to this challenge of integration, and to ensure efficient and maximum use of these data, it is now necessary to develop and create these shared resources:
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