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BrainInfo can be thought of as a Web-based handbook of neuroanatomy. It is an authoritative resource for computational neuroscientists and others who need a quick in-depth orientation to specific structures in the central nervous system (CNS). BrainInfo has three components. The BrainInfo Portal provides extensive descriptive information and images of some 2,500 brain structures; NeuroNames is a neuroanatomical ontology that provides standard English names for the structures plus 13,000 synonyms in eight languages; and NeuroMaps provides brain atlases of the macaque and mouse together with tools for mapping data and processing images for publication.
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The BrainInfo Portal (http://braininfo.org)
Users enter the Portal by several routes. Most enter via Google or via a page that they have previously bookmarked. Many also enter through other websites that focus on a specific aspect of neuroanatomy, such as the brain of a particular species or the inputs and...
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Bowden, D.M. (2015). BrainInfo. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_485
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