NIF

Full name: Neuroscience Information Framework

Contact: Maryann Martone, PhD. & Jeffrey Grethe, PhD.

Dates: 2006 - Present

Purpose:

NIF has been cataloging and surveying the neuroscience resource landscape since 2006. NIF is an initiative started by the NIH Blueprint Consortium, which brings together 16 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices that support neuroscience research into a collaborative framework to coordinate their ongoing efforts and to plan new cross-cutting initiatives. NIF was designed to serve the biomedical research community. NIF maintains the largest searchable collection of neuroscience data, the largest catalog of biomedical resources, and the largest ontology for neuroscience on the web. NIF is the foundational project for the FDI Lab.

Funder(s):

National Institutes of Health’s Neuroscience Blueprint / NIH National Institute of Drug Abuse U24 DA039832 (UCSD, PIs: Martone & Grethe)

PERSONNEL:

Maryann Martone, PhD; Jeffrey S. Grethe, PhD; Anita Bandrowski, PhD

COLLABORATORS(s):

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

Selected Publication(s):

NIF is prominently featured in Neuroinformatics [ISSN: 1539-2791 (Print) 1559-0089 (Online)], published by Humana Press, Inc., in Volume 6, Number 3 / September, 2008 edition.

Most Recent

Babic Z, Capes-Davis A, Martone ME, Bairoch A, Ozyurt IB, Gillespie TH, Bandrowski AE.Incidences of problematic cell lines are lower in papers that use RRIDs to identify cell lines. Elife. 2019 Jan 29;8. pii: e41676. doi: 10.7554/eLife.41676.

Wimalaratne SM, Juty N, Kunze J, Janee G, McMurry JA, Beard N, Jimenez R, Grethe JS, Hermjakob H, Martone ME. Uniform resolution of compact identifiers for biomedical data SCIENTIFIC DATA 5 LBL Report Number ARTN 180029 08 May 2018

Martone, Maryann E.,Garcia-Castro, Alexander,VandenBos, Gary R. Data sharing in psychology. American Psychologist, Vol 73(2), Feb-Mar 2018, 111-125 doi: 10.1037/amp0000242. PMID: 29481105.

Bandrowski AE, Martone ME. RRIDs: A Simple Step toward Improving Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency of Experimental Methods. Neuron. 2016 May 4;90(3):434-436. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.04.030 PMID: 27151636.

Ozyurt IB, Grethe JS, Martone ME, Bandrowski AE. Resource Disambiguator for the Web: Extracting Biomedical Resources and Their Citations from the Scientific Literature. PLoS One. 2016 Jan 5;11(1):e0146300. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146300. PMID: 26730820.

Ferguson AR, Nielson JL, Cragin MH, Bandrowski AE, Martone ME. Big data from small data: data-sharing in the 'long tail' of neuroscience. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Oct 28; 2014. DOI: 10.1038/nn.3838. Print 2014. PMID:25349910.