Brainformatics: Concept, Scope and Challenge

摘要

Brain science is a well-recognized frontier science with extensive and profound contents.According to the spatial scales of the contents involved,multiple sub-disciplines have been setup,such as cellular neurobiology,molecular neurobiology,and there are also some sub-disciplines defined according to the main tools adopted,such as computational neuroscience,electroencephalography.This paper points out that the brain research driven by information science is forming a new discipline "brainformatics" a very vigor and vitality one,with "brain information acquisition","brain information decoding" and "brain information applications" as the main contents.This paper explains the concept,scope and challenge of brainformatics with some concrete examples.