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Yale Gets Grant for Project To
Create Software Tools for Neuroscientists
Other Topics: Medical
Aesthetics
WEBWIRE
November 14, 2008
New Haven, Conn. — Yale University is one of five recipients of
a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to
enhance informatics research tools for neuroscientists around
the world.
The five-year grant administered by the University of
California-San Diego is to develop the Neuroscience Information
Framework (NIF), a dynamic inventory of highly diverse web-based
data, resources and tools needed for cutting-edge research on
normal and disordered nervous function. Other members of the
consortium are California Institute of Technology, Washington
University and George Mason University. |
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The SenseLab group at Yale for the past 15
years has provided web-accessible databases and tools for
integrating data about nerve cells and brain circuits, says
Gordon Shepherd, professor of neurobiology, who will test the
NIF system to ensure it meets the broad needs of the 35,000
members of the Society for Neuroscience.
The NIF was launched in 2005 as part of the National Institutes
of Health’s Blueprint for Neuroscience Research to integrate
research data.
Perry Miller and Luis Marenco at the Yale Center for Medical
Informatics will use the NIF funds to develop software tools
that will enable investigators to access, retrieve and integrate
data about genes, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology and brain
scans.
Also working on the NIF project from the Yale Center for Medical
Informatics are Rixin Wang, Yuli Li and Peter Masiar. |
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