Reverse engineering the brain, online

Stephen David Larsonhttp://slarsØn.com

Brains?

Brains?Groups• Neuroscience Information Framework @ National Institutes of Health• Allen Institute• Neurocommons.org• Cognitive Computing @ IBM• Blue Brain Project @ EPFL• BrainMaps.org• National Center for Biomedical Ontology

Movements• Neuroinformatics• Connectomics• Computational Neuroscience

What is reverse-engineering?

System whose mechanisms are obscured

What is reverse-engineering?

System whose mechanisms are obscured

Individual components andan explanation of how they fit together

What is reverse-engineering?

Provide a framework of parts ready to be snapped together

Reverse-engineering the brain

http://www.mona.uwi.edu/fpas/courses/physiology/neurophysiology/CerebellCtxWiring.JPGhttp://neuroconstruct.org

Two forms of knowledge

Knowledge in words, terminologies and logical relationships

Two forms of knowledge

Knowledge in space and spatial relationships

Knowledge in words, terminologies and logical relationships

Two forms of knowledge, online

Wikipedia

Two forms of knowledge, online

Google EarthWikipedia

Two forms of neuroscience knowledge, online

BrainMaps.org, Allen Reference Atlas

NeuroLex.org

NeuroLex.org

NeuroLex.org

Connecting names to data

http://ontomorphtab.googlecode.com

Connecting names to data

http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/downloads/jinx.shtm

Connecting names to data

Google Earth for the brain?

Google Earth for the brain?

Thanks

Maybe we can’t figure it all out individually, but we can create a framework to help us

figure it out collectively,

online.

Stephen David Larsonhttp://slarsØn.com