Databasing the Brain covers both basic principles and specific applications across a range of problems in brain research.

It truly integrates neuroscience with informatics, providing a means for understanding the new analytical tools and models of neuronal functions now being developed.

Each chapter offers practical guidance for applying this knowledge to current research, enhancing electronic collaborations, and formulating hypotheses.

Contents:

1. Computer science meets neuroscience
   1. Database needs of neuroscience : schema and design
   2. Neuroanatomical nomenclature and ontology
   3. Neuroinformatics for neurophysiology : the role, design, and use of databases
   4. Persistent collections
   5. Entity-attribute-value database approaches for heterogeneous, evolving neuroscience data
   6. Data grids
   7. Building grid-based resources for neurosciences
   8. Visualization in life sciences
   9. Biology workbenches

2. System approaches
   10. Genome to disease
   11. Stimulus-dependent regulation of gene expression in the nervous system
   12. Cell signaling networks in long-term potentiation
   13. Genetic analyses of functional connectivity in the nervous system
   14. GeneWays : a system for extracting, analyzing, visualizing, and integrating molecular pathway data
   15. Cellular morphology at the cellular level
   16. Cellular models
   17. Electrophysiological models
   18. Models of neuronal outgrowth

3. Database applications
   19. The neocortical microcircuit database (NMDB)
   20. SenseLab : a decade of experience with multilevel, multidisciplinary neuroscience databases
   21. Three-dimensional visualization and analysis of wiring patterns in the brain : experiments, tools, models, and databases
   22. Surface-based atlases and a database of cortical structure and function
   23. Brain atlases of normal human subjects
   24. Overcoming challenges to sharing neuroimagery
   25. Probabilistic brain atlases of normal and diseased populations
   26. Maximizing information content in shared and archived neuroimaging studies of human cognition

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