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SenseLab: Integration of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Data

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The SenseLab project involves novel informatics approaches to constructing databases and Web-enabled applications for collecting, modeling, analyzing, and sharing neuroscience information. The emphasis of SenseLab (http://www.senselab.org) is on building experimental data into integrated, multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems in order to gain insight into the neural basis of behavior. SenseLab is also part of the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) project and the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF).

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SenseLab was founded in 1993 as part of the original Human Brain Project sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and several other government funding agencies in the United States, which began the development of neuroinformatics tools in support of neuroscience research. Using the olfactory system as a model, SenseLab has built a suite of nine databases (see Fig. 1) to...

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We gratefully acknowledge funding from NIH grant DC009977.

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  1. Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., FMB 218, 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Prof. Gordon M. Shepherd, Thomas M. Morse, Ted Carnevale, Michele Migliore & Robert A. McDougal Ph.D.

  2. Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Luis Marenco, Kei Cheung & Perry Miller

  3. Department of Neurobiology, Yale University, 208001, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Michael Hines

  4. VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Luis Marenco, Kei Cheung & Perry Miller

  5. Institute of Biophysics National Research Council, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Itlay

    Michele Migliore

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Correspondence to Gordon M. Shepherd .

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  1. Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Shepherd, G.M. et al. (2013). SenseLab: Integration of Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Data. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_497-1

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