Research Guides: Neuroscience: Neuroscience Ontologies

Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Ontologies

An ontology is a formal representation of knowledge that consists of a set of classes that represent concepts defining a field and the relationships among these classes (Larson & Martone, 2009).

BioPortal
BioPortal is a comprehensive repository of biomedical ontologies
BrainInfo: NeuroNames Ontology and Standard Nomenclature
NeuroNames Ontology and Standard Nomenclature of some 3000 central nervous system structures in the human, macaque, rat and mouse.
Cognitive Atlas
The Cognitive Atlas is a collaborative knowledge building project that aims to develop a knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science. The project is led by Russell Poldrack, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Development of the project was supported by grant RO1MH082795 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
KnowledgeSpace
KnowledgeSpace aims to be a globally-used, community-based, data-driven encyclopedia for neuroscience that links brain research concepts to data, models, and the literature that support them. KnowledgeSpace is a framework that combines general descriptions of neuroscience concepts found in wikipedia with more detailed content from NeuroLex. It then integrates the content from those two sources with the latest neuroscience citations found in PubMed and data found in some of the world’s leading neuroscience repositories. KnowledgeSpace is a joint development between the Human Brain Project (HBP), the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), and the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF).
NEMO: Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies
Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies (NEMO) is an NIH funded project that aims to create EEG and MEG ontologies and ontology based tools.
Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) Standard Ontology
NIF Standard ontology (NIFSTD) is a core component of Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) project (http://neuinfo.org), a semantically enhanced portal for accessing and integrating neuroscience data, tools and information. NIFSTD includes a set of modular ontologies that provide a comprehensive collection of terminologies to describe neuroscience data and resources.
Neuroscience Knowledge Engine
Neuroscience Knowledge Engine contains a data-driven ontology for neurobiological domains that synthesizes the texts and data of nearly 20,000 human neuroimaging articles. The data-driven ontology includes 6 domains, each defined by a circuit of brain structures and its associated mental functions.