INM — Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Medizin
Overview
The Institut für Neurowissenschaften und Medizin (INM) is the collective neuroscience and medicine research institute of Forschungszentrum Jülich, a Helmholtz Association research centre in Jülich, Germany. It investigates the organisation and function of the human brain across spatial and temporal scales, integrating neuroimaging, high-performance computing, modelling, and simulation. The INM comprises multiple sub-institutes covering areas from cytoarchitectonics and structural connectivity to brain dynamics, systems neuroscience, and cognitive behaviour. Through the Human Brain Project and its successor EBRAINS, several INM divisions contributed to the development of European neuroscience data infrastructure and FAIR research data services. The INM is formally recognised by INCF as an institutional partner in open neuroscience.
Open Data Infrastructure
The INM’s commitment to open science is expressed directly through the production and maintenance of community research data infrastructure. INM-7 (Brain and Behaviour) is the primary development site for DataLad, the version-controlled data management system co-developed with Dartmouth College and widely adopted across open neuroscience. The INM also contributed to the development of the JuBrain Cytoarchitectonic Atlas Viewer, an open reference atlas platform for human brain microstructure, and has been a partner in developing FAIR data workflows and research data management tools in the context of the Human Brain Project and EBRAINS. INM-6 (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) participates in NFDI Neuroscience as one of its contributing Forschungszentrum Jülich nodes.
Connections
- memberOf: NFDI Neuroscience
- relatedTo: EBRAINS (INM divisions contributed to Human Brain Project and EBRAINS data infrastructure including openMINDS metadata framework)