BrainMaps

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BrainMaps
Content
DescriptionInteractive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas
Data types
captured		Neuroanatomy, Histology
Organismsincludes: Man, monkey, cat, mouse, opossum, goldfish, platypus, dog, owl, chicken, rat, and more
Access
Websitehttp://brainmaps.org/
Miscellaneous
LicenseAll image dataset is copyrighted to their respective owners, if none indicated, to the UC Regents Davis campus.[1]
coronal sections.
b: certain coronal section shown.
c: zooming up of insular cortex region.
d: further zooming up of insular cortex. Nissl stained neurons are visible. This slice can be accessed through this link. [1]

BrainMaps is an

NIH-funded interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on more than 140 million megapixels (140 terabytes) of 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 16 species; a few of which are:

Tyto alba
.

The project's

Ted Jones
from 2005 through 2011, after which the role was taken by W. Martin Usrey.

Description

BrainMaps uses multiresolution image formats for representing massive brain images, and a dHTML/Javascript front-end user interface for image navigation, both similar to the way that Google Maps works for geospatial data.

BrainMaps is one of the most massive online neuroscience databases and image repositories and features the highest-resolution whole brain atlas ever constructed.[2][3]

Extensions to interactive 3-dimensional visualization have been developed through OpenGL-based desktop applications.[4] Freely available image analysis tools enable end-users to datamine online images at the sub-neuronal level. BrainMaps has been used in both research [5][6] and didactic settings.

Additional images

  • Massive brain images are formatted as multiresolution image pyramids, enabling rapid navigation by loading small image tiles instead of the entire image.
    Massive brain images are formatted as multiresolution image pyramids, enabling rapid navigation by loading small image tiles instead of the entire image.
  • Datasets as a function of species at BrainMaps.
    Datasets as a function of species at BrainMaps.

See also

References

  1. ^ Terms of Use, BrainMaps.org Access date: 2014-02-11
  2. PMID 17229579
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  3. PMID 19129928
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  4. PMID 17336095
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  5. PMID 17553780
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  6. PMID 19350670
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External links

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