A neuroscientist's guide to using murine brain atlases for efficient analysis and transparent reporting.

ABSTRACT: Brain atlases are widely used in neuroscience as resources for conducting experimental studies, and for integrating, analyzing, and reporting data from animal models. A variety of atlases are available, and it may be challenging to find the optimal atlas for a given purpose and to perform efficient atlas-based data analyses. Comparing findings reported using different atlases is also not trivial, and represents a barrier to reproducible science. With this perspective article, we provide a guide to how mouse and rat brain atlases can be used for analyzing and reporting data in accordance with the FAIR principles that advocate for data to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable. We first introduce how atlases can be interpreted and used for navigating to brain locations, before

SUBMITTER: Kleven H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10033636 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature