The NeuroHomology Database: An Online KMS for Handling and Evaluation of the Neurobiological Information

The NeuroHomology Database (NHDB) is an online knowledge management system designed for handling, systematization and processing of the neurobiological information about brain structures, neuroanatomical connections and similarities between brain nuclei from different species, as found or inferred from the literature. The NHDB has a modular structure, with a knowledge-base designed for storing the data and a set of inference engines for processing of the stored information. In this chapter we briefly describe the structure of the NHDB and discuss the important aspects of the process of searching for data inside of the system.

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