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The Human Brain Project: neuroinformatics tools for integrating, searching and modeling multidisciplinary
G M Shepherd1, J S Mirsky, M D Healy
1Section of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Abstract:
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.