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RR 2010/334 NIF: Neuroscience Information Framework Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Health and Human Services and NIH Blueprint National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD URL: www.neuinfo.org/ Last visited April 2010
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Keywords Electronic media, Health and medicine, Neurology
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011077372
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is a clearinghouse for information on all aspects of neuroscience from anatomy to current research. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health & Human Services, the NZF, as stated on the website, "is a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources: data, materials, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. An initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, NIF advances neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to public research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment". This sums up the site quite accurately. The amount of neuroscience information to be found here is astounding.
The main function of this website is to provide an interface to the NIF database. This database combines 53 databases including ClinicalTrials.gov, Drugbank, ExactAntigen, the Rat Genome Database, XNAT, and WormBase. The federated searching capability allows for easy access to a wide range of information from plasmid sources, clinical trials, drugs, antibodies, gene expression, NIH grants, to human MRI images. These databases come from a...