Future of the NIF

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Future of the NIF

• A one-stop entry point to neuroscience
  information on the Web.

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Objectives

• Eliminate distance, time and terminology as
  constraints on neuroscientific communication.
• Enable scientists, clinicians, students and the
  public to obtain concise information on specific
  topics within two minutes and a few
  mouse-clicks.
• Enable sophisticated users to pose complex
  queries to the e-literature.

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The Environment A few hundred Web resources
CoCoMac
GENSAT
BIRN/CCDB
Allen Brain Atlas
BAMS
NeuronDB
BrainInfo
Digital Anatomist
NIF WEBSITE
USER
GenePaint
Medical Neuroscience
Google
PubMed
Virtual Hosp Archives
e-Journals
Van Essen Lab
Wikipedia
BrainMaps
Dynamic Interface
Static Interface
Mouse Brain Library
Query Interface
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NIF Navigational Scheme
Search Box
Ontology
Topic Indexes
Gateway to all information at all websites
Curated Portal to information at selected websites
Text-Miners to publications at e-journals
no luck?
Google
PubMed
Other Search Engines
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