Technical and organizational considerations for the long-term maintenance and development of digital brain atlases and web-based databases

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ito, Kei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atlas; Brain; Curator; Image database; Molecular marker; Neuron

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; DATA BASE; DIGITAL BRAIN ATLAS; GLIA CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PUBLICATION; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84891066127     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2010.00026     Document Type: Article

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