Workshop: Resource Database of Identified Neurons for Neuroscience Research: April 28-30, 1994: Washington, D.C

当在一门学科中获得的知识被组织起来并可供详细分析时，科学就会取得巨大的进步。正如引入电子数据库对用于研究的动物基因序列进行编目以来，分子遗传学取得了巨大的进步一样，如果研究人员能够获得适当的数据库，神经科学也将取得进步。在这份提案中，Gwen Jacobs博士概述了一系列研讨会，神经生物学家和信息科学家将聚集在一起，确定如何建立可单独识别的神经细胞的电子数据库。现在有可能建立几种不同研究生物体的数据库，其中可能包括每个细胞的详细结构、生理、神经化学和遗传信息。这些数据库将推进对脑细胞功能或神经网络行为的研究。这些电子存储的信息可以通过互联网提供给研究人员和教育工作者。＊＊＊

9411967 Jacobs Science can make great progress when the knowledge acquired within one discipline is organized and made accessible for detailed analysis. Just as molecular genetics has made great strides since the introduction of electronic databases cataloguing the sequences of genes from animals used in research, neuroscience would be advanced if appropriate databases were made available to researchers. In this proposal, Dr. Gwen Jacobs outlined a series of workshops in which neurobiologists and information scientists will gather to determine how to institute electronic databases of individually identifiable nerve cells. Databases for several different research organisms are now possible, and might include detailed structural, physiological, neurochemical, and genetic information about each cell. The databases would advance studies of brain cell function, or the behavior of neural networks. This electronically stored information could be made available over internet to aid both researchers and educators. ***