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♤ Neuroinformatics is an emerging research area at the interface between information technology with and brain research. It covers all aspects of study the brain, including its form, function, development, and illnesses. Techniques of particular interest are the many kinds of neuroimaging and the analysis of such images, brain databases of all kinds, and computational modeling of brain function.
♤ Combining informatics research and brain research provides benefits for both fields of science. On one hand, informatics facilitates brain data processing and data handling, by providing new electronic and software technologies for arranging databases, modeling and communication in brain research. On the other hand, enhanced discoveries in the field of neuroscience will invoke the development of new methods in information technologies (IT).
♤ Neuroinformatics integrates information across all levels and scales of neuroscience - from genes to behavior - to help understand the brain and treat disease. It encompasses the tools and techniques for data acquisition, sharing, publishing, storage, analysis, visualization, modeling and simulation.