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Q: What does the term 'neuroscientific net' mean?
A: In the given context, the term refers to: - The network of ideas, persons and institutions that pertain to the multifaceted discipline of neuroscience; their relations and mutual influences inside and outside the discipline. The communication between the neuroscience community and the public.
- The emerging network of rapidly growing and interrelated bioinformatics resources that treat neuroscientific data, i.e. databases for time series, sequences, molecules, molecular structure, signalling pathways, taxonomies, anatomic data, functional data and behavioral data, as well as complex semantic information (ontologies, ideas, concepts, reasoning).
Q: What are the immediate goals of the neuroscientific.net - project?
A: Some of the immediate goals: - Building a scalable and userfriendly platform for the discourse between people from all disciplines that are part of the multidisciplinary field of neuroscience, including not only biology and medicine but also informatics, philosophy, sociology and others.
- Harnessing advancements in information technology to handle the growing amount of neuroscientific data, increase productiveness and ease communication between researchers.
- Increasing awareness of the importance of these new technologies and the emerging disciplines of neuroinformatics and integrative neuroscience.
- Reviewing the current international and especially European developments in neuroinformatics.
- Development of data/metadata – models and databases to represent neuroscientific findings. Development of tools and platforms to make these databases understandable and usable.
- Development of a news portal in which new advancements in the neurosciences are presented and discussed in an informed, yet understandable manner. Sparking interest for neuroscience in a broader segment of the public. Motivating the dialog between the public and researchers. Increasing public awareness of neuroscientific issues. Initiating an open dialog about the impacts, chances and dangers of future developments in neuroscience and neurotechnology.
Q: What are the long - term goals of the project?
A: Some of the long - term goals: - Acceleration of the progress in neuroscientific research.
- Easing and enriching the worklife of neuroscientists.
- The development of an open neuroscience community that is better understood by the public.
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