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Brain Architecture Management System (BAMS)

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The Brain Architecture Management System (BAMS; http://brancusi.usc.edu) is an online publicly accessible neuroinformatic platform designed to handle neurobiological information at different organization levels of the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS).

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BAMS Structure

The backend database of BAMS is implemented in the latest MySQL public version, MariaDB (http://mariadb.org). The backend structure of BAMS is modular, with the Brain Partsmodule as the center of the system. Any brain part (gray matter regions, fiber tracts, and ventricles) are uniquely defined in BAMS by a tuplet made of its name, the nomenclature used to identify and name it, the nomenclature version, and species. A neuroanatomical nomenclature is defined here as an internally consistent set of terms used to name a CNS part. The number of terms included in a nomenclature is variable (at least one), and the nomenclature version uniquely specifies the set. Usually, a brain...

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Mihail Bota

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  1. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

    Ranu Jung

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  1. National Research Council, Institute of Biophysics, Palermo, Italy

    Michele Migliore

  2. Computational Physiology Lab, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Christiane Linster

  3. Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Francesco Cavarretta

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Bota, M. (2022). Brain Architecture Management System (BAMS). In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1006-0_692

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