NeuroNames Ontologies


An ontology is the codification of the relationships between words and concepts. Information storage and transmission systems require ontologies to maximize the efficiency of scientific communication (Bowden and Dubach, 2005).

Ontology of Human and Macaque Neuroanatomy

Click to download an Excel workbook that contains the NeuroNames nomenclature for 1500 structures of the human and/or macaque brain and 7600 English and Latin names for them. The tables provide web addresses to pages in BrainInfo that correspond to different structures. These tables are helpful for making neuroanatomic web sites interoperable with each other and with BrainInfo.

Nomenclatures of Canonical Mouse and Rat Brain Atlases

By clicking above you can download an Excel workbook that contains the nomenclatures used by Paxinos and Franklin (2001) , Hof et al. (2000), and Swanson (2004), and Allen Institute for Brain Science (2004). The tables provide web addresses to pages in BrainInfo that correspond to the authors' terms. These tables are helpful for making web sites that use the three atlases interoperable with each other and with BrainInfo.


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