What aspects of Neuroinfo are open to the community and which are proprietary to MicroBrightField?
All data stored using Neuroinfo is available to anyone with sufficient permissions using a variety of data formats and software tools. The images that store the microscopic material are stored in formats that can always be converted to standard nonproprietary formats. In special cases, a source code escrow can be established in the event that MicroBrightField can no longer support the product. The only proprietary parts of Neuroinfo are the viewer, the image server and the database layer which make it easy to specialize and extend. Even the internals of Neuroinfo such as the embedded database and the tools which create the charts on the Image Server Statistics are all open source tools. The .jsp pages that format and present your data are also provided in full and we encourage you to modify them for your specialty.
