International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF)

INCF更广泛的影响是促进神经信息学在神经科学和工程领域的应用。通信科学、机器人技术的重大技术进步 和21世纪世纪的人机界面越来越依赖于类似于大脑所使用的信息处理策略。神经信息学的成功（数据库和 建模），这一连接生物医学和信息技术领域的多学科领域，不仅将显著提高对大脑和大脑启发技术的理解，而且还将减轻大脑疾病造成的巨大社会、经济和心理负担。它还应导致大大提高一个国家在工业和经济环境中的竞争力。实现这一承诺是一项全球性的大科学挑战。

The broader impact of the INCF is to facilitate the utilization of neuroinformatics in a spectrum of neuroscience and engineering areas. Major technological advances in communication science, robotics and machine-human interface of the 21st century are increasingly reliant on strategies of information processing that are analogous to those used by the brain. Success in neuroinformatics (data bases and modeling), the multidisciplinary field interfacing the domains of biomedicine and information technology, will not only markedly enhance the understanding of the brain and brain-inspired technology, but also reduce the enormous social, economic and psychological burdens caused by brain disorders. It should also lead to greatly enhanced competitiveness in the industrial and economic environment of a nation. Fulfillment of this promise constitutes a global megascience challenge.