[Comp-neuro] Neuroinformatics live demos, SfN meeting, Atlanta

[Jan G. 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 [PDF]

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