6. SCOPE OF STUDY
The scope of this study can open an emerging trend in the field of computer and medical science;
a new branch of science called Neuroinformatics, it may deal all the issues of neuroscience and
computer science.
Neuroinformatics is a research field that encompasses the organization of neuroscience data and
application of computational models and analytical tools. These areas of research are important
for the integration and analysis of increasingly fine grain experimental data and for improving
existing theories about nervous system and brain function. Neuroinformatics provides tools,
creates databases and the possibilities for interoperability between and among databases,
models, networks technologies and models for the clinical and research purposes in the
neuroscience community and other fields.
Neuroinformatics stands at the intersection of neuroscience and information science. Other
sciences, like genomics, have proved the effectiveness of data sharing through databases and by
applying theoretical and computational models for solving complex problems in the field. Through
Neuroinformatics facilities, researchers can share their data and contribute to other disciplines
using available tools for the analysis and integration of data. Researchers can also more easily
quantitatively confirm their working theories by means of computational modeling. Additionally,
Neuroinformatics fosters more collaborative research of which one aim is to provide better
possibilities to study the brain at multiple levels of brain structure. There are three main directions
where Neuroinformatics has to be applied:
a. The development of tools and databases for management and sharing of neuroscience data
at all levels of analysis,
b. The development of tools for analyzing and modeling,
c. The development of computational models of the nervous system and neural processes.
In the recent decade; as vast amounts of diverse data about the brain were gathered by many
research groups, the problem of how to integrate the data from thousands of publications in order
to enable efficient tools for further research; was raised. The biological and neuroscience data are
highly interconnected and complex, and by itself represents a great challenge for scientists