NeuroLex

From Bioinformatics.Org Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

BioWiki

the Neuroscience Lexicon


Who is the target audience? 
na
What is the primary function of the wiki? 
na
What 'reward model' do you use (if any)? 
Altruism
What custom features are used? 
na

The NeuroLex project, supported by the Neuroscience Information Framework project, is a dynamic lexicon of neuroscience terms. Unlike an encyclopedia, a lexicon provides the meaning of a term, and not all there is to know about it.

The NeuroLex is being constructed to help improve the way that neuroscientists communicate about their data, so that information systems like the NIF can find data more easily and provide more powerful means of integrating data that occur across distributed resources. One of the big roadblocks to data integration in neuroscience is the inconsistent use of terminology in databases and other resources like the literature. When we use the same terms to mean different things, we cannot easily ask questions that span across multiple resources. For example, if three databases have information about what genes are expressed in cortex, but they all use different definitions of cerebral cortex, then we cannot compare them easily.

Neuro lex.png

People:

Institutions:

Data table

NeuroLex
Contact email
Created 2008/07/22
Content pages (new) 7448 (276)
Users (active) 113 (22)
Contributions*1 (edits) 147544 (1104)
Table notes:
Values in parenthesis are automatically collected over the previous month.
*1 Contributions are defined as: Raw edit count


Links


References

none specified


To add a reference for NeuroLex, enter the PubMed ID in the field below and click 'Add'.


[ edit ]
Search for 'NeuroLex' in:
Web Search Wiki Sites Scientific



Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
wiki navigation
Toolbox