The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), with other NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) the National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) as a part of the BRAIN Initiative to solicit applications for research on Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data (TMM). This program provides support for the development of computational tools (theories, models, methods) for understanding dynamic brain circuits, which will be made broadly accessible to the greater research community. This program supports applications focused on tool building and dissemination in the domain of theories about neural circuit mechanisms, models of circuit structure and function, and/or computational methods of analysis spanning the scale of neurons and firing rates (or proxies thereof), or finer resolution. Applications are not being solicited at this time. Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects. This NOFO will utilize the R01 activity code. Investigators with expertise and insights into this area of computational models, theories and models of neural computations, and AI are encouraged to begin to consider applying for this new NOFO. In addition, collaborative investigations combining expertise in mechanistic, interpretable and predictive models of neural dynamics, and neural circuit function, will be encouraged, and these investigators should also begin considering applying for this application.

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