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The need for novel informatics tools for integrating and planning research in molecular and cellular cognition

Authors
Silva, Alcino J.Mueller, Klaus-Robert
Issue Date
9월-2015
Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
Citation
LEARNING & MEMORY, v.22, no.9, pp.494 - 498
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SCIE
SCOPUS
Journal Title
LEARNING & MEMORY
Volume
22
Number
9
Start Page
494
End Page
498
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/92534
DOI
10.1101/lm.029355.112
ISSN
1072-0502
Abstract
The sheer volume and complexity of publications in the biological sciences are straining traditional approaches to research planning. Nowhere is this problem more serious than in molecular and cellular cognition, since in this neuroscience field, researchers routinely use approaches and information from a variety of areas in neuroscience and other biology fields. Additionally, the multilevel integration process characteristic of this field involves the establishment of experimental connections between molecular, electrophysiological, behavioral, and even cognitive data. This multidisciplinary integration process requires strategies and approaches that originate in several different fields, which greatly increases the complexity and demands of this process. Although causal assertions, where phenomenon A is thought to contribute or relate to B, are at the center of this integration process and key to research in biology, there are currently no tools to help scientists keep track of the increasingly more complex network of causal connections they use when making research decisions. Here, we propose the development of semiautomated graphical and interactive tools to help neuroscientists and other biologists, including those working in molecular and cellular cognition, to track, map, and weight causal evidence in research papers. There is a great need for a concerted effort by biologists, computer scientists, and funding institutions to develop maps of causal information that would aid in integration of research findings and in experiment planning.
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