Newsletter #30

New functionalities to store neuroscience data and metadata in NeuroMat’s freely-shared computational tool

The Neuroscience Experiments System (NES) is an open-source tool to assist in the organizational control and management of clinical and experimental neurophysiological data gathered in use in laboratories, that the technology-transfer team at FAPESP’s NeuroMat has developed since 2014. A scientific challenge that the development of this tool addresses is that neuroscience experiments generate heterogeneous data formats and complex metadata, such as provenance information, and NES —currently available on a 0.12 version — intends to provide a unified repository for data and metadata from different natures (i.e., clinical, imaging, behavioral). Furthermore, NES can manage electrophysiological data from EEG and EMG as well as performing the integration of this data with electronic questionnaires filled by each participant in the context of an experimental protocol.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Vinicius L. Cordeiro, Renan O. Shimoura, Nilton L. Kamiji, Osame Kinouchi and Antonio C. Roque. A stochastic version of the Potjans-Diesmann cortical column model. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Neuroinformatics 2016.

• Kelly R. Braghetto et al. A review of guidelines and models for representation of provenance information from neuroscience experiments. International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, 2016.

• Claudia D. Vargas et al. Motor planning of goal-directed action is tuned by the emotional valence of the stimulus: a kinematic study. Scientific Reports 6, 2016.

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NeuroMat in the media

• NeuroMat hosts first-ever Wikipedian-in-residence in Brazil. Ed Erhart, Wikimedia Blog, 7/15/2016.

• What the frontier of science has to do with Wikipedia. Célio Costa Filho, ARede Educa, 6/13/2016. (In Portuguese.)

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NeuroMat opportunities

• Positions for Postdoctoral Researchers

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On NeuroMat

NeuroMat is a research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools. The research center is headed by Prof. Antonio Galves, from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). To receive monthly updates on NeuroMat's work or pertaining news, please subscribe to NeuroMat's newsletter.

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Previous issues of the NeuroMat Newsletter (features)

Newsletter #29

• In praise of Ernesto Hamburger, NeuroMat’s first dissemination team leader

Newsletter #28

• Moving brain theory along mathematical simplicity and biological plausibility

Newsletter #27

• Towards a collaborative network in brain science