BrainMaps

<h2 id="description">Description</h2>
<p>BrainMaps uses multiresolution image formats for representing massive brain images, and a dHTML/Javascript front-end user interface for image navigation, both similar to the way that <a href="/facts/Google_Maps/cKQ0jaFg">Google Maps</a> works for geospatial data.
</p><p>BrainMaps is one of the most massive online neuroscience databases and image repositories and features the highest-resolution whole brain atlas ever constructed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
</p><p>Extensions to interactive 3-dimensional visualization have been developed through <a href="/facts/OpenGL/xQoMWePr">OpenGL</a>-based desktop applications.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>   Freely available image analysis tools enable end-users to datamine online images at the sub-neuronal level.   BrainMaps has been used in both research <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930183554/http://ect.downstate.edu/cortex_exercise/">didactic</a> settings.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_neuroscience_databases/6WP7I4nB">List of neuroscience databases</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Human_Brain_Project/77NdNkM9">Human Brain Project</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/NeuroNames/gPxv6BYH">NeuroNames</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mouse_brain/b251sw7h">Mouse brain</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="https://www.brainmaps.org/">BrainMaps.org</a> (official website)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5768/1685e?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=brainmaps&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT">BrainMaps featured in <i>Science</i> Magazine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/unsolved-brain-mysteries">BrainMaps images featured in <i>Discover</i> Magazine article, "10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120509152938/https://www.brainmaps.org/index.php?p=publications">BrainMaps-related Publications</a> (archived 9 May 2012)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Mikula, S; Trotts I; Stone JM; Jones EG (2007). "Internet-Enabled High-Resolution Brain Mapping and Virtual Microscopy". NeuroImage. 35 (1): 9–15. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.053. PMC 1890021. PMID 17229579. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1890021" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1890021</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Mikula, S; Stone JM; Jones EG (2008). "BrainMaps.org - Interactive High-Resolution Digital Brain Atlases and Virtual Microscopy". Brains Minds Media. 3: bmm1426. PMC 2614326. PMID 19129928. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614326" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614326</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Trotts, I; Mikula S; Jones EG (2007). "Interactive Visualization of Multiresolution Image Stacks in 3D". NeuroImage. 35 (3): 1038–43. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.013. PMC 2492583. PMID 17336095. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492583" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2492583</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Mikula, S; Manger PR; Jones EG (2007). "The thalamus of the monotremes: cyto- and myeloarchitecture and chemical neuroanatomy". Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 363 (1502): 2415–40. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2133. PMC 2606803. PMID 17553780. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606803" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606803</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Mikula, S; Parrish SK; Trimmer JS; Jones EG (2009). "Complete 3-D visualization of primate striosomes by KChIP1 immunostaining". J Comp Neurol. 514 (5): 507–17. doi:10.1002/cne.22051. PMC 2737266. PMID 19350670. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737266" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737266</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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