Mobilizing the base of neuroscience data: The case of neuronal morphologies

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 318-324

  Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33645278642     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1885     Document Type: Review

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