The Human Brain Project: neuroinformatics tools for integrating, searching and modeling multidisciplinary neuroscience data.
What is neuroinformatics? What is the Human Brain Project? Why should you care? Supported by a consortium of US funding agencies, the Human Brain Project aims to bring to the analysis of brain function the same advantages of Internet-accessible databases and database tools that have been crucial to the development of molecular biology and the Human Genome Project. The much greater complexity of neural data, however, makes this a far more challenging task. As a pilot project in this new initiative, we review some of the progress that has been made and indicate some of the problems, challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Shepherd
G M
GM
Section of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Mirsky
J S
JS
Healy
M D
MD
Singer
M S
MS
Skoufos
E
E
Hines
M S
MS
Nadkarni
P M
PM
Miller
P L
PL
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000639:trends*