EBRAINS Meets with Neuroinformatics Community at INCF Assembly 2024

The INCF Assembly 2024 took place at The University of Texas at Austin. EBRAINS was present at the event with scientific talks and posters, and engaged with members of the neuroinformatics community.

On Monday, 23 September, EBRAINS researcher Professor Timo Dickscheid presented the keynote ‘Fairly detailed: Making "big" data resources accessible via brain atlases’ during the ‘FAIR neuroscience’ session. He gave a comprehensive overview of the brain atlases which are openly accessible to researchers on the EBRAINS infrastructure.

During the same session, EBRAINS researcher Andrew Davison presented ‘Enhancing the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of neuroscience data using the openMINDS metadata framework.' 

On Wednesday, 25 September, EBRAINS Chief Science Officer Professor Viktor Jirsa presented the keynote ‘Virtual brain twins for medicine’ during the ‘Closing the discovery loop and digital twins’ session.  

Prof. Jirsa provided a detailed overview of the EBRAINS-coordinated Virtual Brain Twin project, which will create an ecosystem for generating virtual brain twins for psychiatric patients.

Later that day, Prof. Jirsa presented ‘International data sharing through EBRAINS’ during the ‘BRAIN Initiative Informatics Perspectives: Funding and Building a Sustainable Data Ecosystem’ roundtable.

He discussed the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph, openMINDS metadata framework, and data curation services that are available on the EBRAINS research infrastructure.  

During the event, EBRAINS researchers Andrew Davison and Lyuba Zehl presented scientific posters. Davison presented 'Facilitating data reuse with in-depth metadata’, while Zehl presented 'bids2openminds: extracting linked data from brain imaging data structures.' 

The INCF Assembly 2024 was a great opportunity for EBRAINS to interact with the neuroinformatics community. We are looking forward to seeing you at the INCF Assembly 2025!