ChemNetDB

About

ChemNetDB is an open access constantly evolving neurochemical connectivity database obtained from the rat brain. By utilizing advanced neuroinformatics methods, we have integrated over 50 years of neuroanatomical and neurochemical research on rat brain into a consistent, brain-wide, multi-scale neurochemical cerebral connectome. This connectome differs from the previously suggested neuronal networks of rat brain in two major aspects:

1. it integrates information on transmitter systems and receptors on the network topology;
2. it is unbiased and hypothesis-free as the connectome was obtained by consistent and systematic procedures without a priori assumptions.

The Team

• Coordinator: Hamid R. Noori (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
• Data collection: Judith Schöttler and Rainer Spanagel (Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Data analysis: Maria Ercsey-Ravasz (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania), Melinda Varga and Zoltan Toroczkai (University of Notre Dame, USA)
• IT-administration: Diego Sanchez (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)

Financial Support

	Max Planck Society
	Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
	European Commission