Mouse BIRN Projects

Mouse BIRN (mBIRN) is a research and development effort funded by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to produce an integrated framework for the collection, analysis, management, and visualization of diverse neuroscience data sets. It provides a test bed for the formulation of hardware, software, and protocols to produce a distributed adaptive database and multiscale, multimodality digital atlases of the mouse brain. These resrouces are used to share and mine multi-scale structural and functional data and integrate these with genomic and gene expression data. The goal is to create an infrastructure that can greatly enhance previously disparate data collections into a single system capable of quantitative visualization and linkage with previously disconnected knowledge bases.

• overview.pdf: OVERVIEW OF THE BIRN PROJECT