[Neuro-IT] Neuroinformatics live demos, SfN meeting, Atlanta

[Volker Baier]

Forward for:
Jan Bjaalie

NEUROSCIENCE 2006, Atlanta, October 15 - 18

The newly established International Neuroinformatics Coordinating  
Facility is hosting a series of live demos of computational tools and  
databases. Welcome to our booth in the Institutional Exhibit Area,  
booth no. 2728.

Program and abstracts are posted at www.incf.org

Sunday October 15th

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | The Brain Architecture Management System: a  
mature neuroinformatics workbench for neurobiology | M Bota, LW Swanson

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | Rodent Brain Navigator: database and atlas  
system for microscopy and imaging data | JG Bjaalie, JO Kjøde, T  
Hjørnevik, TB Leergaard, D Darin, C Pettersen, IA Moene

1.30 pm – 4.30 pm | The Neuroscience Information Framework: A  
Prototype National Neuroinformatics Node | D Gardner, GA Ascoli,  D  
Donohue, M Halavi, L Marenco, ME Martone, P Miller, A Robert,  GM  
Shepherd, PW Sternberg


Monday October 16th

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | Massively parallel simulation of brain-scale  
neuronal network models | M Djurfeldt, C Johansson, Ö Ekeberg, M  
Rehn, M Lundqvist, A Lansner

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | NEST: A Simulation Tool for Large Neuronal  
Networks | HE Plesser, M Diesmann, MO Gewaltig, A Morrison, A Aertsen  
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1.30 pm – 4.30 pm | INCF Japan Node and Platforms | S Usui, S  
Watanabe, S Amari

1.30 pm – 4.30 pm | Neurofitter: a parameter tuning package for  
electrophysiological neuron models | W Van Geit, P Achard,  E De  
Schutter


Tuesday October 17th

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | CoCoMac: an integrated brain connectivity  
database | R Kötter,  G Bezgin

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | Surface-based Atlases of Cerebral Cortex:  
Visualization and Data-Mining using Caret, WebCaret, and SumsDB  
Software | J Harwell, D Van Essen, J Dickson, D Dierker

1.30 pm – 4.30 pm | GeneNetwork, The Mouse Brain Library, and a new  
Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain | RW Williams, W Bug,  A Centeno,  
J Nissanov, KF Manly, GD Rosen, U Schambra

1.30 pm – 4.30 pm | The NeuroScholar Knowledge Management Platform |  
G Burns


Wednesday October 18th

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | ART: Automatic reconstruction of tubular  
structures: from single neuron to whole brain  – a multiscale  
approach to integrated brain function | M Sibila, A Hess, K Obermayer

9.30 am – 12.30 pm | The virtual rat brain: software environment for  
integration of 3d cellular data of the rat brain | L Zaborszky, P  
Varsanyi, Z Nadasdy, N McDonnell, F Howell


Scientific organizers: Robert W. Williams, SfN Neuroinformatics  
Committee, and Jan Bjaalie, INCF Secretariat.


Sincerely,

Jan G. Bjaalie
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, Secretariat
www.incf.org