Open Challenge to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! Developers
Ok, geospatial mapping services are great and all, but come on, mapping the brain is far more interesting and needed. So I offer an open challenge to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! developers who are involved with these AJAX and Flash-related mapping technologies to consider developing them for other fields besides mapping the earth. Try applying your talents to mapping the brain, which is truly the last frontier.
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For example, the highest resolution whole brain images at BrainMaps.org use the freely available Zoomify Software for creating massive online tiled/tiered images. The problem is that currently the only way to interact with these online tiled/tiered images is through a Flash-based interface provided by Zoomify. What we need is an open-source AJAX solution, perhaps hosted on SourceForge, for interacting with these Zoomify-type tiled/tiered brain images. In this manner, anybody will be able to publish AJAX web interfaces for high resolution brain data, thereby accelerating the development of brain mapping and related technologies.
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