Title
Cross-Domain Neurobiology Data Integration and Exploration
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Understanding the biomedical implications of data from high throughput experiments requires solutions for effective cross-scale and cross-domain data exploration. However, existing solutions do not provide sufficient support for linking molecular level data to neuroanatomical structures, which is critical for understanding high level neurobiological functions. RESULTS: Our work integrates molecular level data with high level biological functions and we present results using anatomical structure as a scaffold. Our solution also allows the sharing of intermediate data exploration results with other web applications, greatly increasing the power of cross-domain data exploration and mining. CONCLUSIONS: The Flex-based PubAnatomy web application we developed enables highly interactive visual exploration of literature and experimental data for understanding the relationships between molecular level changes, pathways, brain circuits and pathophysiological processes. The prototype of PubAnatomy is freely accessible at: [http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/Brainarray/prototype/PubAnatomy]
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1186/1471-2164-11-S3-S6
BMC genomics
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet,gene regulatory networks,data mining,microarrays,proteomics,data integrity,database management systems,interactive visualization,high throughput
Data integration,Data science,Data exploration,Biology,Bioinformatics,Throughput,Gene regulatory network
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11 Suppl 3
Suppl 3
1471-2164
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
15
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weijian Xuan1574.23
Manhong Dai2472.76
Joshua Buckner320.38
Barbara Mirel415216.94
Jean Song5395.68
Brian Athey6825.64
Stanley J. Watson7412.40
Fan Meng811410.82