Neuroscience Databases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Neuroinformatics for C. elegans: Relating Mind and Body in Wormbase

   • Nansheng Chen, Raymond Y. N. Lee, Zeynep F. Altun, Thomas Boulin, Paul W. Sternberg, Lincoln D. Stein

   Pages 1-17

3. A Gene Expression Map of the Mouse Brain

   • Axel Visel, Jamila Ahdidan, Gregor Eichele

   Pages 19-35

4. Databases for the Functional Analyses of Olfactory Receptors

   • Chiquito J. Crasto, Nian Liu, Gordon M. Shepherd

   Pages 37-50

5. Construction of a Protein-Protein Interaction Database (PPID) for Synaptic Biology

   • Holger Husi, Seth G. N. Grant

   Pages 51-62

6. Modeling The Dynamics of Second Messenger Pathways

   • Kim. T. Blackwell, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski

   Pages 63-79

7. Web-Based Neuronal Archives

   • Dennis A. Turner, Robert C. Cannon, Giorgio A. Ascoli

   Pages 81-97

8. ModelDB: A Resource for Neuronal and Network Modeling

   • Andrew P. Davison, Thomas M. Morse, Michele Migliore, Luis Marenco, Gordon M. Shepherd, Michael L. Hines

   Pages 99-109

9. CoCoDat: Collation of Cortical Data on Neurons and Microcircuitry

   • Jonas D.-Johnsen, Jürgen Maier, Klaas E. Stephan, Rolf Kötter

   Pages 111-122

10. Computer Models and Analysis Tools for Neural Microcircuits

    • Thomas Natschläger, Henry Markram, Wolfgang Maass

    Pages 123-138

11. A Practical Guide to Information Analysis of Spike Trains

    • Gianni Pola, Simon R. Schultz, Rasmus S. Petersen, Stefano Panzeri

    Pages 139-154

12. An Introduction to CoCoMac-Online

    • Lars Kamper, Ahmet Bozkurt, Konrad Rybacki, Andreas Geissler, Ina Gerken, Klaas E. Stephan et al.

    Pages 155-169

13. Graph Theory Methods for the Analysis of Neural Connectivity Patterns

    • Olaf Sporns

    Pages 171-185

14. The PUPS-MOSIX Environment: A Homeostatic Environment for Neuro- and Bio-informatic Applications

    • Mark A. O’Neill, Gully A. P. C Burns, Claus C. Hilgetag

    Pages 187-202

15. The NeuroHomology Database: An Online KMS for Handling and Evaluation of the Neurobiological Information

    • Mihail Bota, Michael A. Arbib

    Pages 203-219

16. The fMRI Data Center: Software Tools for Neuroimaging Data Management, Inspection, and Sharing

    • John Darrell Van Horn, Jeffrey B. Woodward, Geoffrey Simonds, Bennet Vance, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Mark Montague et al.

    Pages 221-235

17. Statistical Parametric Mapping

    • Karl J. Friston

    Pages 237-250

18. The Brain Positioning Software

    • Volker Schmitt, Andrzej Wichert, Jo Grothe, Friedrich T. Sommer

    Pages 251-258

19. BrainInfo

    • Douglas M. Bowden, Mark Dubach

    Pages 259-273

20. Federation of Brain Data through Knowledge-guided Mediation

    • Maryann E. Martone, Amarnath Gupta, Bertram Ludäscher, Ilya Zaslavsky, Mark H. Ellisman

    Pages 275-291

Neuroscience Databases: A Practical Guide is the first book providing a comprehensive overview of these increasingly important databases. This volume makes the results of the Human Genome Project and other recent large-scale initiatives in the neurosciences available to a wider community. It extends the scope of bioinformatics from the molecular to the cellular, microcircuitry and systems levels, dealing for the first time with complex neuroscientific issues and leading the way to a new culture of data sharing and data mining necessary to successfully tackle neuroscience questions.
Aimed at the novice user who wants to access the data, it provides clear and concise instructions on how to download the available data sets and how to use the software with a minimum of technical detail with most chapters written by the database creators themselves.

• bioinformatics
• data mining
• database
• databases
• evaluation
• information
• neurons
• neuroscience
• software tools

• Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  Rolf Kötter

Rolf Kötter is a staff member at the Dept. of Anatomy II and Leader of the Computational Systems Neuroscience Group at the C. & O. Vogt Brain Research Institute, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

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