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NIF

Neuroscience Information Framework

About

NIF catalogs and surveys the neuroscience resource landscape, maintaining "the largest searchable collection of neuroscience data, the largest catalog of biomedical resources, and the largest ontology for neuroscience on the web." NIF coordinates efforts across the NIH Blueprint Consortium's 16 institutes and centers and has served as the foundational infrastructure from which FDI Lab grew.

FDI Lab Deliverables

  • Resource cataloging and cross-database search infrastructure
  • NeuroLex ontology
  • Data discovery services

Details

Duration: 2006–present

Contact: Maryann Martone, PhD

Funder: NIH/NIDA

Grant: U24 DA039832

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FDI Lab Team

  • Maryann Martone
  • Jeffrey Grethe
  • Anita Bandrowski

Collaborators

  • Gordon Shepherd (Yale)
  • Luis Marenco (Yale)
  • David Van Essen (WashU)
  • Giorgio Ascoli (GMU)
  • Paul Sternberg (Caltech)
  • Tim Clark (UVA)