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Databases and data models enabling neuroinformatics
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Our neurodatabase project is designed to advance both neuroscience and informatics, by enabling neurophysiology resources with the utililty and ease of use of sequence databases.
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Our neurodatabase project is designed to advance both neuroscience and informatics, by enabling neurophysiology resources with the utililty and ease of use of sequence databases. As a component of the Human Brain project, we are implementing a database of author-submitted physiological datasets, metadata, and neuron descriptions in order to aid data exchange of spike trains and allied physiological data descriptive of somatosensory cortical neurons. This internet database brings universal access and ease of use to the search, dynamic display, and analysis of neurophysiological datasets by utilizing multiplatform Web and Java techniques.
Although the project focuses on somatosensory cortical data, our data model, the database implementation, and user tools are each general enough to permit scalability to many forms of neurophysiological datasets. A Common Data Model underlies both this project and a parallel invertebrate identified neuron database, and tool development for each advances the other.
During the course of the project, we have expanded its scope and significance to include an additional goal: methods and standards for enhanced interoperability and federation of data sources. Toward this goal, we are developing an open extensible standard for describing and sharing data and data models: Common Data Model 2000.
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