Program on Ontologies of Neural Structures

Focusing on the neuroinformatics aspects, PONS aims to establish a platform for translation and clarification of terminologies and indexing, with an emphasis on cross mapping and comparison of terminologies. The long-term goal is to provide useful and practical means for facilitation of data sharing and reuse of data across research disciplines. This program is closely linked to the INCF Program on Digital Atlasing but endeavours at reaching out to all areas of neuroscience, given the fact that ontologies of neural structures represent a foundation for communication across multiple levels of investigation.

Oversight committee

Chair: Maryann Martone, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

• Douglas Bowden, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  
• Erik De Schutter, Okinawa University of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
• Nathaniel Heintz, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
• Colin Ingram, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
  
• Mary B. Kennedy, California Institute of Technology, Psadena, CA, USA
  
• Clifford Saper, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  
• David Van Essen, Washington University, St.Louis, MO, USA
• Robert Williams, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
• Laszlo Zaboszky, Rutgers University , Newark, NJ, USA
  
• Karl Zilles, Universities of Duesseldorf and Juelich, Germany

Project coordinator: Jyl Boline, jylboline@gmail.com