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Neuroinfo
Introducing a dramatic advancement in digital microscopy! – An image information server for research collaboration.
What is NeuroInfo®?
NeuroInfo application viewed through a web browser.
Neuroinfo is a software package which was developed by MBF Bioscience to provide digital microscopy to intranets and the Internet. It provides a web server, an image server, an embedded database as an integrated package which is easy to customize and extend. The images served are extremely large. They were created using a computer-controlled microscope with a motorized stage which scans many fields-of-view, and combines them into a large montage which we call a virtual slide. Images may represent as much as 100 Gigabytes of uncompressed image data. The Neuroinfo system provides access to any field-of-view at any magnification from any web browser instantly.
- The web site NeuroInformatica is an example of NeuroInfo showing neurological tissue.
- For other histological tissue, you will find examples at Virtual MicroWorld
How can Neuroinfo be used in research?
Neuroinfo is also a powerful tool for scientific collaboration and cataloging of microscopic slide specimens. Remote workgroups can be set up allowing multiple researchers to simultaneously view slide material, add annotations to the slide, and write comments to one another. Using the bioinformatics database engine incorporated into Neuroinfo, slide material can be quantified, analyzed and compared to other sets of data as a means to support or negate hypotheses about the experimental results contained in the slides.
Neuroinfo can be used to create anatomical atlases that show the actual tissue at a cellular level, and annotate regions that correspond to a controlled nomenclature. Atlases of many more species and variations will soon be available to the scientific community. These atlases can incorporate changes through the developmental stages of a species and side-by-side views of different developmental stages can easily be created.