High Detail Granule Cell Morphology (situated in context)

Grant Recipient:  University of California San Diego,
Center for Research in Biological Systems

The Waitt Foundation is the major contributor to the UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) to develop the Whole Brain Catalog as part of the Whole Brain Project^TM.

The Whole Brain Catalog is an open source, downloadable, multi-scale virtual catalog of the mouse brain and its cellular components. Developed by Dr. Mark Ellismanand UCSD neuroscientists, this next generation tool helps members of the worldwide neuroscience community facilitate solutions for today’s intractable challenges in brain research.

Simulations & Animations

Using the Whole Brain Catalog’s ground-breaking, open-source, 3-D virtual environment, scientists can connect and crowd source brain research solutions while they zoom in and out and around structures deep in a multi-scale spatial framework to generate high-resolution simulations and animations. They can also perform searches for specific content and share their own findings and views.

Data types supported by the Whole Brain Catalog

The Whole Brain Catalog™ draws from resources such as the Cell Centered Database (CCDB) and the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), as well as many other important efforts in neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and open source development.

About UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems

The UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) provides human resources, high technology equipment and administrative services to scientists engaged in fundamental research on cell structure and function relationships, particularly those involved in central nervous system processes, cardiovascular networking and muscular contraction. CRBS facilitates an interdisciplinary infrastructure in which people from biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics can work with those from computer science and information technologies in collaborative research.

Resources/Media

Whole Brain Catalog Web site
Whole Brain Project Web site
UCSD CRBS Web site
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