Brain Navigator Overview Customer

An Introduction to BrainNavigator

Agnès Brouwers CrespelIn-House Sales Representative

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View the brain like never before!View the brain like never before! Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. BrainNavigator is a trademark of Elsevier Inc.

How Can It Help?How Can It Help?BrainNavigator is a true workflow solution to help advance

discoveries in neuroscience. Similar to the way GPS works to identify a location in the world, BrainNavigator

works to find location of structures within the brain.

The result is improved research at significant cost savings in time and other resources.


Brain Atlas ProgramBrain Atlas Program

RAT BRAIN MOUSE BRAIN

MONKEY BRAINHUMAN

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For almost 30 years, Academic Press / Elsevier has been the publisher of choice for the gold standard of brain atlases authored by the leading team of brain cartographers around George Paxinos, Charles Watson, Keith Franklin, Jürgen Mai, Michael Petrides, and others.


Main User RequestsMain User Requests• Navigation Tools

– Synchronized side by side comparison viewer and zoom– Common nomenclature across species– Very high resolution images

• Customization/ Personalization Tools– My Workspace– Peer collaboration – Annotation

• Lab Research Tools– Interactive 3D models – Viewing and integration of your own images and data– Calibration of atlas to your own specimen– Virtual slicing


CollaborationCollaboration

• Allen Institute for Brain Science—a non-profit medical research organization working to advance brain research worldwide– Provides free publicly available resources that fuel

discovery– Includes Allen Mouse Brain Atlas—a genome-wide

map of gene expression in the mouse brain www.brain-map.org

– Created free Brain Explorer® 3D browser • BrainNavigator 3D browser is based on Brain

Explorer technology exchange• BrainNavigator includes select free content• Collaboration provides for navigation to Allen

Mouse Brain Atlas


DemonstrationDemonstration


Navigation Tools• Side-by-side comparison of information between atlas plates and between species• High resolution illustrations and photographs served quickly• Common nomenclature across species for easy comparison

Customization/ Personalization Tools• My Workspace area keeps track of what you recently worked on• Peer collaboration allows you to share notes with colleagues globally• Annotation tools help keep track of notes within the context of the online atlas

Lab Research Tools• 3D visualizations that can be sliced to enhance training and understanding the brain• The calibration tool allows users to input and save information about specific subject

animals to more closely match BrainNavigator coordinates• 3D Virtual Slicing to simulate a slice and then view the resulting 2D image. Slices may be

manipulated represent different angles and compared with their own stained sections to assist with the identification of structures.

Features/benefitsFeatures/benefits


Free Trial OfferFree Trial Offer

Free and subscription versions of BrainNavigator are available.

You are invited to participate in a free trial to try the full subscription version of BrainNavigator

for yourself for a limited time.

Sign up today at www.brainnav.com/info


If you have questions you may contact us at [email protected]

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Brain Navigator Overview Customer