How can Neuroinfo be used in research?
Neuroinfo is also a powerful tool for scientific collaboration and cataloguing of slide materials. Remote workgroups can be set up allowing multiple researchers to simultaneously view slide material, add annotations to the slide, and write comments to one another. Using the bioinformatics database that is a part of Neuroinfo, slide material can be quantified, analyzed and compared to other sets of data as a means to support or negate hypotheses about the experimental results contained in the slides. Neuroinfo can be used to create atlases that show the actual tissue at a cellular level, and demark regions that correspond to a controlled nomenclature. Atlases of many more species and variations will soon be available to the scientific community. These atlases can incorporate changes through the developmental stages of a species and side-by-side views of different developmental stages can easily be created.
