Carlis, et al, present the database design for the Zoomable Brain Database [1]. We have developed data models for novel neuroscience. One model focuses on MR and Confocal microscopy images, the connections between them, and the notions of macroscopic and microscopic neural pathways in the brain. We have implemented this "connections" data model in the Montage DBMS, and have populated the schema with neuroscience data.
Kandel, Schwartz and Jessel discuss in detail the fundamentals behind neural science [10].
Slotnick and Leonard have an extensive photo atlas of an albino mouse forebrain [19]. The ideas of a zoomable, digitized rat brain came from atlases such as this one.
The Zoomable Brain Database is based on neuroscience fundamentals. At its heart is a digital brain atlas. Our work presents network, processor and disk performance analysis in accessing the digital images.