Advancing global collaborative brain research

Technologies
python, javascript, c/c++, cuda, xml
Topics
visualization, big data, neuroscience, brain simulation, brain imaging
Advancing global collaborative brain research

The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF; www.incf.org) is an international organization launched in 2005, following a proposal from the Global Science Forum of the OECD. INCF was established to facilitate and promote the sharing of data and computing resources in the international neuroscience community. A larger objective of INCF is to help develop scalable, portable, and extensible applications that can be used by neuroscience laboratories worldwide.

The mission of INCF is to share and integrate neuroscience data and knowledge worldwide. We foster scientific community collaboration to develop standards for data sharing, analysis, modeling and simulation in order to catalyze insights into brain function in health and disease.

INCF activities are open to all who can contribute to neuroinformatics at the international level. We have a global community of neuroscience researchers working on new and improved tools for all of neuroscience – enabling other researchers to make more and faster discoveries, and improving our understanding of the brain.

2018 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
CHENG-HSUN HSUEH
Mentor
Bradly Alicea
Organization
INCF
Contextual Geometric Representations of Cultural Behavior
The project is about turning a set of mathematical models based on the paper “Contextual Geometric Structures: modeling the fundamental components of...
Contributor
Jessica Dafflon
Mentor
Padraig Gleeson
Organization
INCF
Implementation of Two Neural Mass Models on the Open Source Brain Platform
Different computational models have been developed in neuroscience to simulate neural systems, however, these models often use different programming...
Contributor
kapilkd13
Mentor
Marcel Stimberg
Organization
INCF
Importing NeuroML morphologies into Brian
Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks. It is written in the Python programming language and is available on multiple...
Contributor
Laura Bilicz
Mentor
Pilou Bazin, Chris Steele
Organization
INCF
Building high-resolution 3D models of brain vasculature
In this project, we seek to develop 3D meshing and visualization techniques that are better adapted to the complexity of vascular structures.
Contributor
Anton Komissarov
Mentor
Jamie Knight, Thomas Nowotny
Organization
INCF
A PyNN interface to GeNN
PyNN is a project written in python that aims at interfacing a handful of neural network simulators. A unified high level interface means that a...
Contributor
Patrick Park
Mentor
Kirstie Whitaker
Organization
INCF
Easy BIDS: Starter Kit for Brain Imaging Data Structure
Neuroimaging scans can be costly in both time and money to acquire. This creates a barrier for many underfunded researchers without access to the...
Contributor
Xiangxiu Meng
Mentor
Paula Popa, Lia
Organization
INCF
2.3 Monitor Sensors signal in 2D and 3D
The project is about refactoring the current dual brain activity visualiser's 2D plots and adding new visual components to its 3D part to display...
Contributor
getsanjeev
Mentor
Dimiter Prodanov
Organization
INCF
Modular Machine Learning and Classification Toolbox for ImageJ
ACTIVE SEGMENTATION is an ImageJ plugin that provides a general-purpose environment that allows biologists and other domain experts to use...
Contributor
Wazeer Zulfikar
Mentor
Chris Gorgolewski, Andrew Doyle
Organization
INCF
MRI Defacing Detector
In the global community for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) related research, datasets are often shared publicly due to its expensive acquisition...
Contributor
Arnab Banerjee
Mentor
Bradly Alicea
Organization
INCF
Physics-based XML Model building for mosaic embryogenesis of Caenorhabditis elegans
The Openworm foundation is building the world's first digital organism.(a worm matrix!) The DevoWorm project(under Openworm) is building a...
Contributor
Sam
Mentor
Bradly Alicea
Organization
INCF
Contextual Geometric Representations of Cultural Behavior
The goal of this project is to create a platform that allows the user to run simulations with Contextual Geometric Structures. This model allows for...
Contributor
madhur.tandon
Mentor
Asier Erramuzpe, Daniele Marinazzo, Nigel Colenbier
Organization
INCF
Building a portable open pipeline to detect the hemodynamic response function at rest
Most of the currently used data is task-based fMRI data i.e. the data acquired when the subject performs an explicit task (such as finger-tapping)....
Contributor
Joey Pinto
Mentor
Petr Ježek
Organization
INCF
Dynamic Signal Processing Workflow Designer
INCF is using EEG event-related potential signal processing and machine learning methods for building assistive systems for motor impaired people....
Contributor
Afonso Pinto
Mentor
Matteo Cantarelli, Giovanni Idili
Organization
INCF
Add support for Neurodata Without Borders 2.0 to Geppetto
The release of a new NWB version makes it necessary the reintegration of this format into the awesome open-source in-browser neuroscientific...
Contributor
Alona Sakhnenko
Mentor
Jamie Knight, Thomas Nowotny
Organization
INCF
Building a Neural Network Animation tool using Python and Blender
The aim of the project is to design and develop a software that converts description files of neural networks (e.g. NineML, NeuroML, SpineML) into a...
Contributor
pyc0d3r
Mentor
Paula Popa, Lia
Organization
INCF
Packaging the virtual brain for the modern world
This project is about packaging of the the virtual brain(tvb) to the scientific community, using the most used scientific software distributors such...