Overview

This workgroup has been formed to tackle creating a neuroinformatics framework using multimodal digital atlases to coordinate access to disparate forms of data and present them in a clear and concise manner. These atlases can be built to encompass many different kinds of data, enabling visualization, data analyses, and information retrieval in a relatively intuitive setting.

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Goals

• Exchange of:
  • Atlas state
  • Metadata
  • Data (images, segmentations, etc)

• Locations referenced via:
  • Spatial coordinates
  • Ontology
  • Verbal descriptions
  • Rat atlas as proxy (images and segmentation-scalable into mouse atlas)

• Mechanisms of integration across atlas clients
  • Specification of state of atlas client
  • API for initializing exchange service and submitting and retrieving states

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Planning

Plans and Action Items

• Atlasing Plan from workshop day at the BIRN AHM (10/26/05)
• Atlas Plan and Action Items generated at June 2005 mouse AHM: (06/01/05)
  • atlas_workplan_6_1_05.doc: Atlasing Plan and Action items generated at meeting, word doc
  • atlas_workplan_6_1_05.pdf: Atlasing Plan and Action items generated at meeting

Working Areas

Table of Contents of Working Pages

• Atlasing Use Case Page
• Exchange of State between Atlases Page
• Exchange of State between Atlases Focus on Server in 2007
• Structure Hierarchies Page
• Biological Aspects of Atlasing Page
• Issues of Registration Page
• MBAT Work Page
• Common Data Models Working Pages

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Other important information and links

• Site specific information on Atlasing Tools
• Download beta version of the Mouse BIRN Atlasing Toolkit (MBAT) (11/18/05)
  • This program can be found on the BIRN Portal on the MBAT download page. It is offered as a .zip package, a .tgz package, or simply download the whole MBAT program folder.
• Atlasing Related Resources of Interest

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Updates/Progress

• Atlasstatus11_05.doc: Status of atlasing project and related issues (11/17/05)

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