Chinese node of the international neuroinformatics network- Brainbank.cn

Song Yue-tao1   Yin Ling2

1 Beijing geriatric hospital—Beijing geriatric institute for clinic and rehabilitation, Beijing , 100095

2 The neuroinformatics institute of the PLA general hospital, Beijing 100853

 

Brainbank.cn is a professional website developed by the national neuroinformatics liaison group and computer network center of Science Academy of China and Chinese node of the international neuroinformatics network, according to general disposition of the Organization of international Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)--Global Science Forum(GSF)- Neuroinformatics (NI), under the support of the 973 great international cooperation project--Chinese node of the international neuroinformatics network,. Its webpags include nine columns: home page, general situation of website, international cooperation, research projects, research achievements, teaching and training, requiring service, forum and free mailbox etc; and five main databases including basic neuroscience database, clinical neuroinformatics database, special feeling of flu and awareness consciousness database, artificial intelligence database and informatics tool database etc.; three kinds of unique databases: Chinese-western medicine encephalopathy database, acupuncture brain function imaging database and the Chinese cognition and consciousness feeling database etc.; website  navigation, friendship chain, search service and help..etc.  Brainbank.cn. The main mission of Brainbank.cn are integration of neuroinformatics data resources with eastern character, building up a research environment of global network cooperation, makeing use of the network technique to chain with the international database related brain reseach and neuroinformatics, carring on the excavation and international cooperation research of the data together with the international organization, providing share service of science data resources for the world.

Its implement will promote the conservationsearchmanagementpublication of the Brainbank.cn realm data resources, promote the same kind data resources of our country to be better searched, evaluated, obtained and applied broad as well as the exchange and content integratation of such kind data resources, push up the development of Brainbank.cn data resources.

The establishment of  Brainbank.cn fits to the development direction of the future CODATA, adapts to the demand of the international informatic construction, in favor of seting up the implement of the global mankind brain project, in favor of construction of research environment of global neuroinformatics network cooperation, in favor of integrating neuroinformatics data resources domestically and oversea, in favor of the training of the special talent of neuroinformatics, is the window of exhibiting the research achievement of neuroinformatics of  China to overseas, provides share service of data resources of neuro-science and neuroinformatics for the world..

Keyword: neuroinformatics , database, resources share, metadata standard

SONG Yue-tao, male, borned on October 11th in 1967, professor, chief of department, mainly engaged in the research of clinical neuroinformatics . Telephone 010-62402129(o) 13641233236M  E –mail  syt521800@sohu.com