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The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) is an international science organization. Its purpose is to facilitate worldwide cooperation of activities and infrastructures in neuroinformatics-related fields. It was established in 2005 by recommendations of the Global Science Forum working group of the OECD. The secretariat is hosted by the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. The INCF currently has national nodes in 18 member countries. The Executive Director is Linda Lanyon, the Scientific Director is Sean Hill and the chairman of the Governing Board is Jan G Bjaalie of the University of Oslo. Demonstration projects have included the CoCoMac database, NEST simulation tool, SumsDB, NeuroScholar, and MUSIC. The INCF also hosts the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC) and INCF Software Center. The INCF organizes an annual Neuroinformatics Congress whose location changes from year to year. == Genesis of the project == The recommendation to coordinate international efforts in the new field of Neuroinformatics was first made in the report on Bioinformatics elaborated under the aegis of the then OECD Megascience Forum in 1998. Following extensive discussions in the Neuroinformatics Working Group of the Global Science Forum chaired by Dr Stephen Koslow, the proposal to create an International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, as well as a funding Programme in International Neuroinformatics (PIN), was then presented in 2002. This project was endorsed by OECD science ministers at their meeting in January 2004. Sixteen countries (Australia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Victoria, Australia), as well as the European Commission, then elaborated the working documents that form the legal basis for the INCF and the PIN (see below). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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