The Belgian Neuroinformatics Node is network of research labs and individual fellows who foster understanding of Neuroscience through formal methods and automation of data analysis. Our goal is to understand how different types of brains work. The network is associated to the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF), where Belgium was a former member country. Neuroinformatics is a research field concerned with the processing and organization of neuroscience data by the application of principles of computer science and state of the art software design methodologies. The Neuroinformatics provides generic and interoperable computational tools, mathematical models, and databases for Neurosciences.
Why Neuroinformatics?
With the diversity of the data generated in neuroscience, going from the genetic and molecular level to cognitive functions and the diversity of acquisition systems, the necessity of developing software tools, standards to describe the data and proper models appears crucial for a better integration of these heterogeneous data for further understanding the brain.

What is INCF?
INCF is an international network fostering neuroinformatics expertise to support collaboration throughout the global brain research community. The mission of INCF is to accelerate advances in understanding and treating the brain through the development of neuroinformatics – applying the best practices of data science to challenges in basic and clinical brain research. The INCF network consists of
Governing Nodes: Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Sweden
Associated Nodes: Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, USA
News
GSOC 2022 announced
April 11, 2022
Special issue completed
February 11, 2022
Long-running GSoC project on image segmentation results in a paper
January 14, 2022
FENS Jobs Market
- EJN publisher, Wiley, signs Transitional Agreement with UNAM in Mexico
- NENS Education and Training call for clusters 2022: discover the selected proposal
- 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Recipients announced
- EJN publisher, Wiley, signs Transitional Agreement to Accelerate Open Access Publishing in France
- FENS-EJN image competition 2022: discover the winner image!
Neuroinformatics News
- INCF Infrastructure Committee recommendations published in Scientific Data
- New paper on BIDS-Microscopy
- Interview with NeuroHackademy founder Ariel Rokem
- Welcome to the INCF Assembly 2022!
- A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms
Meeting updates
- EJN publisher, Wiley, signs Transitional Agreement with UNAM in Mexico
- NENS Education and Training call for clusters 2022: discover the selected proposal
- 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Recipients announced
- EJN publisher, Wiley, signs Transitional Agreement to Accelerate Open Access Publishing in France
- FENS-EJN image competition 2022: discover the winner image!
- Call for nominations for the Brain Prize 2023
Recent Neuroinformatics papers
- Validation Through Collaboration: Encouraging Team Efforts to Ensure Internal and External Validity of Computational Models of Biochemical Pathways
- Editorial
- Complexity of Brain Dynamics as a Correlate of Consciousness in Anaesthetized Monkeys
- Cortical Representation of Touch in Silico
- Deploying and Optimizing Embodied Simulations of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks on HPC Infrastructure
- On the Minimal Amount of EEG Data Required for Learning Distinctive Human Features for Task-Dependent Biometric Applications
- Multi-Source Domain Adaptation Techniques for Mitigating Batch Effects: A Comparative Study
- Nonconvex Nonlocal Tucker Decomposition for 3D Medical Image Super-Resolution