BrainMaps

BrainMaps
Content
Description Interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas
Data types
captured		 Neuroanatomy, Histology
Organisms Monkey, cat, mouse and owl
Access
Website http://brainmaps.org/
Miscellaneous
License All image dataset is copyrighted to their respective owners, if none indicated, to the UC Regents Davis campus.[1]
Nissl stained, Chlorocebus aethiops brain at BrainMaps.org.
a: choosing from some hundreds of 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.

BrainMaps is an NIH-funded interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on more than 20 million megapixels (60 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 the species Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis silvestris catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Tyto alba.

The project is led by Ted Jones and Shawn Mikula at the University of California, Davis .

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.

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Terms of Use, BrainMaps.org Access date: 2014-02-11
  2. ↑ Mikula, S; Trotts I; Stone JM; Jones EG (2007). "Internet-Enabled High-Resolution Brain Mapping and Virtual Microscopy". NeuroImage. 35 (1): 9–15. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.053. PMC 1890021Freely accessible. PMID 17229579.
  3. ↑ Mikula, S; Stone JM; Jones EG (2008). "BrainMaps.org - Interactive High-Resolution Digital Brain Atlases and Virtual Microscopy". Brains Minds Media. 3: bmm1426. PMC 2614326Freely accessible. PMID 19129928.
  4. ↑ Trotts, I; Mikula S; Jones EG (2007). "Interactive Visualization of Multiresolution Image Stacks in 3D". NeuroImage. 35 (3): 1038–43. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.013. PMC 2492583Freely accessible. PMID 17336095.
  5. ↑ Mikula, S; Manger PR; Jones EG (2007). "The thalamus of the monotremes: cyto- and myeloarchitecture and chemical neuroanatomy". Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1 (1502): 2415–40. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2133. PMC 2606803Freely accessible. PMID 17553780.
  6. ↑ Mikula, S; Parrish SK; Trimmer JS; Jones EG (2009). "Complete 3-D visualization of primate striosomes by KChIP1 immunostaining". J Comp Neurol. 514 (5): 507–17. doi:10.1002/cne.22051. PMC 2737266Freely accessible. PMID 19350670.
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