Title | ||
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NeuroScholar's electronic laboratory notebook and its application to neuroendocrinology. |
Abstract | ||
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Scientists continually relate information from the published literature to their current research. The challenge of this essential
and time-consuming activity increases as the body of scientific literature continues to grow. In an attempt to lessen the
challenge, we have developed an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) application. Our ELN functions as a component of another
application we have developed, an open-source knowledge management system for the neuroscientific literature called NeuroScholar
(http://www. neuroscholar.org/). Scanned notebook pages, images, and data files are entered into the ELN, where they can be
annotated, organized, and linked to similarly annotated excerpts from the published literature within Neuroscholar. Associations
between these knowledge constructs are created within a dynamic node-and-edge user interface. To produce an interactive, adaptable
knowledge base. We demonstrate the ELN's utility by using it to organize data and literature related to our studies of the
neuroendocrine hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVH). We also discuss how the ELN could be applied to model other neuroendocrine
systems; as an example we look at the role of PVH stressor-responsive neurons in the context of their involvement in the suppression
of reproductive function. We present this application to the community as open-source software and invite contributions to
its development. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2006 | 10.1385/NI:4:2:139 | Neuroinformatics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
computational neuroscience,user interface,knowledge,knowledge management system,knowledge base,data management,neuroinformatics | Journal | 4 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 1539-2791 | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.45 | 4 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Arshad M. Khan | 1 | 23 | 3.88 |
Joel D. Hahn | 2 | 3 | 0.45 |
Wei-cheng Cheng | 3 | 32 | 1.31 |
Alan G. Watts | 4 | 3 | 0.45 |
Gully A. P. C. Burns | 5 | 172 | 12.17 |