What is BrainKB?

BrainKB serves as a knowledge base platform that provides scientists worldwide with tools for searching, exploring, and visualizing Neuroscience knowledge represented by knowledge graphs (KGs). Moreover, BrainKB provides cutting-edge tools that enable scientists to contribute new information (or knowledge) to the platform and is expected to be a go-to destination for all neuroscience-related research needs.

Objective(s)

The main objective of BrainKB is to represent neuroscience knowledge as a knowledge graph such that it can be used for different downstream tasks, such as making predictions and new inferences in addition to querying and viewing information.

Expected outcome

The expected outcome of the BrainKB includes the following:

• (Semi-)Automated extraction of neuroscience knowledge from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources, and representing the knowledge via KGs. Visualization of the KGs.
• Platform to perform different analytics operations over the BrainKB KGs.
• (Semi-)Automated validation of the BrainKGs to ensure the high quality of the content.
• Provides the ability to ingest data in batch or streaming mode for the automated extraction of KGs.