Neurodata without Borders(NWB) workshop
The purpose of the hackathon is to bring the experimental neurophysiology community together to further adoption and the development of NWB, the NWB software libraries, and the progress of the scientific workflows that rely on NWB. Members of the community will exchange ideas and best practices for using NWB and the libraries, share NWB:based tools, surface common needs, solve bugs, make feature requests, brainstorm about future funding and collaboration, and make progress on current blockages. The event will also enable NWB developers and users to interact with each other to facilitate communication, gather requirements, and train users.
In contrast to conferences and workshops, where the primary focus is to report results, the objective of the Hackathon is to provide a venue for NWB users and tool developers to learn about NWB and collaboratively work on any NWB-related research projects. This event is meant to foster community and collaboration around NWB, not competition. There will be no judges nor prizes. Participants will be expected to bring data from their lab, software they would like to integrate with NWB, and/or collaborate with others to build integration with NWB.
Day 1, 17 August 2020
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Welcome and overview of NWB - Oliver Ruebel |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Interactive tutorial using NWB in both Python and MATLAB - Ben Dichter and Ryan Ly |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Using community tools with NWB - Ben Dichter |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Accessing and visualizing data on DANDI - Ben Dichter |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
NWB use-cases |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Overview of tutorial projects |
| 14:15 - 16:45 |
Working on projects with help from developers |
| 16:45 - 17:00 |
Review progress on projects |
Day 2, 18 August 2020
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Creating NWB extensions - Ryan Ly |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Advanced data I/O - Andrew Tritt |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Continue working on projects |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
| 13:00 - 16:30 |
Continue working on projects |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Review of project outcomes |
INCF Brain Summit is a unique workshop dedicated to providing the infrastructure providers and tool developers of the world’s leading large-scale brain projects with a forum to share experiences and lessons learned, as well as identify opportunities for alignment, gaps, and overlaps in the global neuroscience informatics infrastructure.
| Tuesday, 18 August 2020 |
| Brain Summit 2020 - Day 1 |
| Wednesday, 19 August 2020 |
| Brain Summit 2020 - Day 2 |
INCF Congress on Neuroinformatics is the culminating event of the INCF Assembly week. Register on 1st March 2020 to ensure that you do not miss out on learning more about the latest developments in:
- Brain modeling to capture mechanisms underlying modern neuroscience datasets across spatial and temporal scales
- Brain-inspired AI and neuroscience insights from AI
- Modern ways of doing and sharing science
- Machine learning for data/image processing
- Extracting scientific information from large-scale data through neuroinformatics
- Translation to disorders and behavior
| Wednesday, 19 August 2020 |
| Session 1: Opening ceremony |
| Welcome Address: Marcello Rosa, Program Committee 2020 Chair |
| INCF Presentation: Prof. Maryann Martone, INCF Governing Board Chair |
| INCF Australian Presentation: Prof. Gary Egan, Deputy chair, INCF Governing Board |
| Allen Institute Presentation: Mike Hawrylycz |
Keynote: Elizabeth Zavitz, Understanding correlated variability within and between areas of the visual brain