Friday, February 4, 2011

Mouse brain resources and gene expression

To illustrate the potential of the INCF Digital Atlasing framework, we integrated three major community resources into this developing infrastructure as atlas hubs: the ABA and associated tools such as the Anatomic Gene Expression Atlas (AGEA), EMAP/EMAGE for developmental mouse brain data, and the WBC, which integrates the UCSD/BIRN Smart Atlas (Spatial Mark-Up and Rendering Tool) and the Cell Centered Database (CCDB, http://www.ccdb.ucsd.edu/), including the Paxinos and Watson mouse brain atlas. Each of these atlases represents an important community resource in the rodent brain research community. To make these atlases interoperable, we registered the atlases to WHS and made their data accessible via the standards and Web services indicated above.

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1001065

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