Reverse engineering the brain,
online
Stephen David Larson
http://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?
Individual components and System whose mechanisms
an explanation of how they fit together are obscured

What is reverse-engineering?
Provide a framework of parts ready to be snapped together

Reverse-engineering the brain
http://neuroconstruct.org http://www.mona.uwi.edu/fpas/courses/physiology/neurophysiology/CerebellCtxWiring.JPG

Two forms of knowledge
Knowledge in words, terminologies and
logical relationships

Two forms of knowledge
Knowledge in words, terminologies and Knowledge in space and spatial
logical relationships relationships

Two forms of knowledge, online
Wikipedia

Two forms of knowledge, online
Wikipedia Google Earth

Two forms of neuroscience knowledge,
online
NeuroLex.org BrainMaps.org, Allen
Reference Atlas

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 Larson
http://slarsØn.com