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NIH Blueprint
Neuroscience Information Framework Briefing

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Building 31, 6th Floor Conference Room 6
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

   
5:30-5:35 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
NIF: Capturing Legacies and Framing the Future
Dr. Nora Volkow
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
       
5:35-5:40 p.m.

Project Overview
Dr. Daniel Gardner
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Professor of Neuroscience
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Slides (5.7 MB)

   
   
5:40 - 6:00 pm
NIF Functionalities and Capabilities
• Registration and Discovery at Levels I, II, and III
• NIF Architecture for Achieving Functionalities
• NIF Vocabularies and their Broader Impact
• Use Case Demonstrations
Dr. Maryann Martone
Department of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego
Slides (392 kb)
   
6:00 - 6:15 pm

Textpresso: An Ontology-Based Information Retrieval and Extraction System for Biological Literature
Dr. Paul Sternberg
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
Slides (3.08 MB)
   
6:15-6:35 p.m. Case Study: Demonstration and Lessons Learned from Level III Registration and Discovery Dr. David Van Essen
Professor and Head, Anatomy and Neurobiology
Neurosciences Program
Washington University School of Medicine
Slides
(12.2 MB)
   

6:35-7:00 p.m.

Questions/Discussions
   
7:00 p.m. ADJOURN
   

 

 

 
 
   
 
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health