Bioinformatics of Behavior: Part 1

This issue of International Review of Neurobiology is split over 2 volumes, bringing together cutting-edge research on Bioinformatics of Behavior. The 2 volumes review current knowledge and understanding, provide a starting point for researchers and practitioners entering the field, and build a platform for further research and discovery.

Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation, and provide their views and perspectives for future researchChapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics coveredAll chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is also accessible to the non-specialist

1. Lost and Found in Behavioral Informatics

Melissa A. Haendel and Elissa J. Chesler

2. Biological Databases for Behavioral Neurobiology

Erich J. Baker

3. A Survey of the Neuroscience Resource Landscape: Perspectives from the Neuroscience Information Framework

Jonathan Cachat, Anita Bandrowski, Jeffery S. Grethe, Amarnath Gupta, Vadim Astakhov, Fahim Imam, Stephen D. Larson and Maryann E. Martone

4. The Neuro–Behavior Ontology: an Ontology for Annotation and Integration of Behavior and Behavioral Phenotypes

Georgios V. Gkoutos and Robert Hoehndorf

5. Ontologies for Human Behavior Analysis and their Application to Clinical Data

Janna Hastings and Stefan Schulz

6. Text-Mining & Neuroscience

Kyle H. Ambert and Aaron M. Cohen

7. Applying in Silico Integrative Genomics to Genetic Studies of Human Disease: A Review Scott F. Saccone