Sean Hill - Global collaborative neuroscience: Building the brain from big data
Channel: INCF
Date: 2013-05-22

Month of the Brain 2013 Special Lecture. May 21, 2013. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Speaker: Professor Sean Hill, INCF Executive Director

Talk abstract: Neuroscience data is highly diverse and fragmented as it is produced worldwide in thousands of different laboratories and facilities. Neuroinformatics  aims to enable integration of this data across all levels and scales of neuroscience to help understand the brain and treat disease: Thus, Neuroinformatics entails the development of standards  and infrastructure  for data acquisition, storage, provenance, sharing, publishing, analysis, visualization, modeling and simulation.

Prof. Hill discuss how the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) together with its 17 member countries coordinates a collaborative informatics infrastructure for neuroscience and manages scientific programs that develops standards and tools for data sharing, analysis, modeling, and simulation to improve insight into brain function in health and disease. He also discuss INCF's latest development, the INCF Dataspace, which has been developed to provide a collaborative research infrastructure to support neuroscientists share data, text, images, sounds, movies, models, and simulations.

This event is part of INCF's activities for the European Month of the Brain in 2013.