Digital Brain Atlasing

Digital brain atlases are essential tools in neuroscience research. They function as references and analytical tools, and provide stable integration frameworks as a basis for investigations of normal and abnormal brain structure and function. Web-accessible brain atlases and spatial indices promise to evolve into powerful tools for dynamic, multidimensional modes of scientific interaction. The key aim of this INCF program is to coordinate and improve the impact of atlasing projects, with a focus on the rodent brain.

Reference Data - Waxholm Space

Waxholm Space is a coordinate-based reference space for the mapping and registration of neuroanatomical data in the mouse brain. Image volumes representing the canonical Waxholm Space (WHS) mouse brain can be downloaded from the INCF Software Center. Servers hosting the Waxholm Space translation services, which will enable scientists to register their own mouse data to the standard Waxholm Space coordinates as well as provide translations among other mouse brain atlases, have been set up the Royal Institute of Technology's Supercomputer Center in Stockholm.