THE HUMAN BRAIN PROJECT - NEUROINFORMATICS TOOLS FOR INTEGRATING, SEARCHING AND MODELING MULTIDISCIPLINARY NEUROSCIENCE DATA

What is neuroinformatics? What is the Human Brain Project? Why should you care? Supported by a consortium of US funding agencies, the Human Brain Project aims to bring to the analysis of brain function the same advantages of Internet-accessible databases and database tools that h ave been crucial to the development of molecular biology and the Human Genome Project. The much greater complexity of neural data, however, makes this a far more challenging task. As a pilot project in this new initiative, we review some of the progress that has been made and ind icate some of the problems, challenges and opportunities that lie ahea d.