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
Belgian News
Postdoc advert
November 7, 2019
GSOC 2019 completed successfully
August 29, 2019
GSOC 2019 Project Ideas
March 13, 2019
FENS Jobs Market
- Ph.D. Student in Heidelberg/Germany
- Post-doctoral position in Glasgow/UK
- Ph.D. Student in Heidelberg/Germany
- Post-doctoral position in PISA/Italy
- Ph.D. Student in Innsbruck/Austria
Neuroinformatics News
- NeuroImage special issue on reproducibility
- Why you should join INCF
- INCF successfully concludes pilot Season of Docs
- Human Brain Project (HBP) public event in Heidelberg, Germany on November 25.
- Open MR hackathon in Netherlands, January 21-23 2020
Meeting updates
Winter School Workshop on Computational Brain Connectivity Mapping
September 29, 2017
Software Carpentry at SfN 2017
September 29, 2017
5th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics BNNI 2017
September 29, 2017
Recent Neuroinformatics papers
- Functional Parcellation of Individual Cerebral Cortex Based on Functional MRI
- Web Application for Quantification of Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Cortical Lesions in Adult Mice
- Diverse Community Structures in the Neuronal-Level Connectome of the Drosophila Brain
- A Novel 2D Standard Cartesian Representation for the Human Sensorimotor Cortex
- Evaluation of Six Phase Encoding Based Susceptibility Distortion Correction Methods for Diffusion MRI
- Decoding Movement From Electrocorticographic Activity: A Review
- QUINT: Workflow for Quantification and Spatial Analysis of Features in Histological Images From Rodent Brain
- Large-Scale Simulation of a Layered Cortical Sheet of Spiking Network Model Using a Tile Partitioning Method