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INCF

An open & FAIR neuroscience standards organization

The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF; www.incf.org) is an international organization launched in 2005, following a proposal from the Global Science Forum of the OECD. INCF was established to facilitate and promote the sharing of data and computing resources in the international neuroscience community. A larger objective of INCF is to help develop scalable, portable, and extensible applications that can be used by neuroscience laboratories worldwide. The mission of INCF is to make neuroscience FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) by sharing and integrating neuroscience data and knowledge worldwide. We foster scientific community collaboration to develop standards for data sharing, analysis modeling and simulation in order to catalyze insights into brain function in health and disease. INCF activities are open to all who can contribute to neuroinformatics at the international level. We have a global community of neuroscience researchers working on new and improved tools for all of neuroscience – enabling other researchers to make more and faster discoveries, and improving our understanding of the brain.

  • python
  • javascript
  • java
  • c++
  • gpu
  • machine learning
  • data visualization
  • neuroscience
  • brain modelling
  • neuroimage processing

Project ideas

4 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 4 that state a difficulty: 2 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard. Sizes: 2 medium, 1 large. 72 mentors named.

  1. Brian Simulator - Serialization/deserialization for Brian sim models, results, and input data (175h/ medium easy
  2. Brian Simulator - Improved parser for Brian model descriptions (175h) medium hard
  3. Brian Simulator - Complete/finalize code editor support for Brian model equations (175h) medium
  4. Brian Simulator - Fix outstanding issues in Brian2CUDA (175h/350h) large easy

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 12, '17: 13, '18: 16, '19: 17, '20: 21, '21: 21, '22: 35, '23: 22, '24: 27, '25: 25, '26: 23.

On GitHub

6 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (4), C++ (1), HTML (1).

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "INCF" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "INCF"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "INCF"
or ask your assistant:
"Which INCF repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.