Making Neuroscience Information More FAIR and Open

Maryann Martone, professor emerita of neuroscience at the University of California San Diego, was fascinated with how computers were going to impact neuroscience research. Trained as a neuroanatomist, Martone shifted her path in the mid-1990s to help shape the field of neuroinformatics, developing neuroscience data alongside computational tools for sharing, integrating, and analyzing information about the nervous system.
Working today with organizations like the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) headquartered in Sweden, Martone collaborates with labs to make their information more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) and open - which could allow larger amounts of STEM information to be disseminated to more people of all ages over time.
Video produced by Riki Davis, Taylor Johnson, and Emily O’Connor for BrainFacts.org.
Storyboarding and editorial production by Tristan Rivera and Juliet M. Beverly