The goal of the NeuronBank project is to create a flexible system for managing, analyzing, sharing, and extending our knowledge of identified neurons and the circuits they form.
To accommodate the diversity of neural organization across species, we are developing two applications: the NeuronBank Branch Knowledge Base (BranchKB) and NeuronBank Central or the Meta-Server.
The NeuronBank BranchKB produces a web-based knowledge management system that can be easily customized to handle information about any type of nervous system. Researchers will be able to download this open-source application and immediately establish an online knowledgebase for storing and sharing information within their research community.
NeuronBank Central will provide searches across published species databases. This federated knowledge-management system pushes forward several innovative computer science technologies and will serve an important need in the neuroscience community.
See Development for more information about this design.