Mission
The Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) is a UCSD organized research unit (ORU) that exists to provide human resources, high technology equipment, and administrative services to scientists researching cell structure and function relationships in central nervous system processes, cardiovascular networking, and muscular contraction through multiple scales and modalities.
CRBS facilitates an interdisciplinary infrastructure in which people from biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics can work with those from computer science and information technologies in collaborative research. Researchers share interests in the study of complex biological systems at many scales, from the structures of enzymes, proteins, and the body's chemical communications network at atomic and molecular levels, to an organism's physiology, strength, and support at cellular and tissue levels. more...
In the News
New Data and Visualization Tools for the Whole Brain Catalog
Researchers from the Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) at the University of California, San Diego rolled out beta version 0.7.5 of the Whole Brain Catalog™ on January 25th. In this beta version, developers have improved features to enhance the Catalog's usability as a free, open access environment in which neuroscientists can contribute, share and analyze data.
Over 200 brain regions from the Allen Brain Atlas are now available through the Whole Brain Catalog™. Previously, only five brain regions from the Allen Atlas were available to the user, along with 30 mouse brain regions from the Waxholm-Space Brain Atlas. The broader integration of the widely used Allen Brain Atlas improves the Catalog's multi-scale 3D imaging capabilities as well as its effectiveness as a reference tool for neuroscience data analysis by maximizing more...
