Differences between Neuro-informatics, NeuroBioinformatics, Computational Neuroscience

Question

[mahaddino]

Pretty much like the title.

There are actually differences or they are pretty much the same?

Also there is a particular neuroscientific field dedicated to Molecular Dynamics Simulations?

Thanks in advance for the replies

[PoGibas]

You should ask this question on https://neurostars.org ("This site's focus is neuroinformatics and neuroscience") :-)

[mahaddino]

I'm so sorry. Thank you so much, I will do it immediately

Answer 1

[Devon Ryan]

Edit: I should have refreshed before posting! See the neurostars suggestion!

This is probably off-topic, but I'm not sure where else you'll get an answer.

FYI, within neuroscience, things like molecular dynamics simulations are usually lumped into the "biophysics" category, though the line between that and "computational neuroscience" is pretty blurry.

Traditionally, "computational neuroscience" has included things like creating computational models of neurons (be they Hodgkin and Huxley style or not) or similar types of simulations involving either ion channels or brain-related structures (neurons, glia, networks, etc.).

I would define "neurobioinformatics" to just be "bioinformatics with neuroscience-related data"...which means that I think the term is largely meaningless. Bioinformatics these days is largely: microarrays, sequencing, proteomics, and things related to them. Generally once you start going a step up and modelling a system your doing "computational *", but there's really no strict delineation.

Neuroinformatics is sort of a hodge-podge of computational neuroscience and biophysics with anything fMRI included, since that's often left out of computational neuroscience.

Anyway, those are just my feelings as to the vague delineation of things. I used to to some biophysics and computational neuroscience back when I was a grad. student, so definitions may have changed drastically since then (or what I gathered as the definitions then could have been wrong).