STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new version of its online research tool, BrainNavigator. The first version, introduced in 2008, was reportedly well received by the neuroscience researcher community and received the PROSE Award in 2009. In the updated version, BrainNavigator 3.0, Elsevier has added new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research.
The product now includes the Rhesus Monkey atlas, developed by Editors-in-Chief, Professors George Paxinos and Charles Watson of the University of New South Wales in collaboration with Michael Petrides from McGill University in Montreal. Version 3.0 also features the Atlas of the Human Brain, developed by Dr. Paxinos, Prof. Jürgen Mai and Dr. Thomas Voss at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany.
BrainNavigator is an online, interactive, 3D software tool that seeks to extend and advance the application of brain atlases and maps images of brain anatomy, helping neuroscience researchers save time and improve the quality of their daily research. It helps locate the position of structures within the brain, making visualisation and communication about scientific findings about the brain easier.
In addition to providing significant new functionalities designed to further support the neuroscientist's workflow in the lab, the new version of BrainNavigator continues to integrate digitised versions of the leading atlases. Other new functions include linking to the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas gene expression database; the ability to create and save a series of slices from 3D to 2D; inclusion of fibre tracts; and inclusion of the rat and mouse chemoarchitectonic atlases.
Offering both free and subscription-based content, BrainNavigator is used by the National Institutes of Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and other research institutions.
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