The Scalable Brain Atlas (SBA) is a fully web-based display engine for brain atlases and topologies. It allows client websites to show brain region related data in a 3D interactive context. Currently available atlas templates are:
A variety of services are being developed around the templates contained in the Scalable Brain Atlas. For example,
you can include thumbnails of brain regions in your own webpage, following these instructions. See the howto section (under development) for more applications.
The SBA runs in almost all web browsers; Internet Explorer users need this plugin, but not for long as IE9 will have builtin support for SVG.
Supported are recent versions of FireFox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera.
The viewer is developed by Rembrandt Bakker and Gleb Bezgin under supervision
of Rolf Kötter at the NeuroPI group of the Donders Institute,
Radboud UMC Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Hosting and support are provided by the INCF.
It was first presented as a poster and demo session at the INCF booth of SFN 2009 in Chicago.
To suggest a feature or report a bug, mail to Rembrandt Bakker, r.bakker at donders.ru.nl.
What's new
2010-09: Made a crippled, thumbnail-based version of the SBA for SVG-incapable browsers (including the Google robot)
2010-09: Installed Google Analytics tracker
2010-08: DB08 and WHS09 template now show MRI overlays
2010-08: DB08 template now shows WikiPedia definitions, obtained from freebase.com
2010-08: Loading of templates nearly 3 times faster using gzip compression
2010-08: Fixed bug (work-around) in Corel Trace, leading to spurious horizontal lines in SVG output
2010-08: Dubach and Bowden 2008 Macaque template added, including NeuroNames hierarchy
2010-07: Automated pipeline for template import from png sources
2010-07: Get templates/regions as tab-separated data using listregions.php
2010-06: Single php/html source for all templates, new features are automatically shared
2010-06: Comparison of potrace vs. Corel trace to convert raster images to SVG: Corel makes better partitions, but potrace is much easier to automate
2010-05: Matlab interface to view 3d renderings of regions
2010-05: Lookup region name by stereotaxic coordinate implemented for PHT00
2010-04: Stereotaxic coordinates of mouse-cursor displayed in 2d view
2010-03: New atlas template: PHT00_on_F99
2010-03: Thumbnail service extended with 3d view and indexed-color png files
