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From www.temporal-lobe.com
There are several research driven database projects which provide complimentary information.
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The Allen Brain Atlas
The Allen Brain Atlas features a collection of free interactive databases integrating gene expression and neuroanatomic information for the mouse and human nervous systems, complete with integrated data mining and visualization tools.
Blue Brain Project
The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
The Brain Architecture Management System
The Brain Architecture Management System (BAMS) is an online resource for information about neural circuitry developed and maintained by the group of Dr. Larry Swanson at the University of Southern California (USC). This rapidly expanding set of inference engines currently has 5 interrelated modules: Brain Parts (gray matter regions, major fiber tracts, and ventricles), Cell Types, Molecules, Connections (between regions and cell types), and Relations (between parts identified different neuroanatomical atlases).
BrainInfo
BrainInfo is a portal to neuroanatomical information on the Web. It helps you identify structures in the brain and provides a variety of information about each structure by porting you to the best of 1500 web pages at 50 other neuroscience sites. BrainInfo also contains three unique knowledge bases of its own: NeuroNames, which provides the index to brain structures and narrative information about them; the Template Atlas, which shows the structures that are found in the primate brain; and NeuroMaps, a set of several hundred overlays that will show the location of different kinds of information that have been mapped to the standard background maps (templates) of the Atlas. Information about brain structures in other species, particularly the human, is provided by links to other websites. Click here for an informal History of BrainInfo and here for a guided tour of BrainInfo as a Portal to Neuroanatomy on The Web.
BrainMaps.Org
BrainMaps.org is an interactive multiresolution next-generation brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet. Currently featured are complete brain atlas datasets for various species, including Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Tyto alba.
Brain Navigator
BrainNavigator (Elsevier) allows you to browse and compare atlas plates, species (rat/mouse) and diagrams. 3D modeling makes visualizing and understanding brain structures easier. A limited feature set can be used for free after registration.
COCOMAC
CoCoMac (Collations of Connectivity data on the Macaque brain) is an approach to produce a systematic record of the known wiring of the primate brain. The main database contains details of hundreds of tracing studies in their original descriptions. Further data are continuously added. The website features a free CoCoMac-Paxinos-3D viewer written in JAVA.
The Online Brain Atlas Reconciliation Tool
The Online Brain Atlas Reconciliation Tool (OBART) project proposes to create and deploy a free web-based application that will be used by researchers and clinicians who use brain atlases in the course of their work. An analytical framework was developed that quantifies the similarities and differences between several human MRI-based partitioning schemes that will enable meaningful multi-atlas meta-analysis of clinical and scientific questions. These methods offer a quantitative answer to the "nomenclature problem" in neuroscience by comparing brain parts on the basis of their geometrical definitions rather than on the basis of name alone. Thus far our tools have been used to quantitatively compare eight distinct parcellations of the International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM) single-subject template brain, each created using existing atlasing methods. We provide measures of global and regional similarity, and offer visualization techniques that allow users to quickly identify the correspondences (or lack of correspondences) between regions defined by different atlases. By making these methods interactive and putting them online we hope to facilitate a better understanding, particularly within the brain imaging community, of the relationships between different atlases.
The Rodent Brain WorkBench
The Rodent Brain WorkBench presents a collection of brain mapping and atlasing oriented database applications and tools. The main category of available data is high resolution mosaic images covering complete histological sections through the rat and mouse brain. A highly structured relational database system for archiving, retrieving, viewing, and analysing microscopy and imaging data, aiming at presentation in standardized brain atlas space, is used to present a series of web applications for individual research projects.
