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Neuroinformatics
Every day, individual laboratories and large-scale initiatives in neuroscience and medicine generate enormous amounts of data on different facets of the brain and its diseases. Potentially, this data is an invaluable resource. But the volume is so huge, that in practice it is hard to find and use. The Human Brain Project will “federate” this data – making it accessible to the project and scientists throughout the world and allowing the discovery of patterns and principles that can only emerge from systematic exploration of very large volumes of data. This is the goal of the project’s work in neuroinformatics. The project will collaborate with researchers throughout the world to specify standards describing experimental and clinical data. It will develop software tools, databases and procedures to analyze and store very large volumes of data, and will build and manage the necessary computing infrastructure. The end result will be a facility allowing scientists to access and analyze an ever expanding volume of data on every possible aspect of the brain – from the internal structure of neurons seen through an electron microscope to the large-scale patterns of activity captured by medical imaging.