Introduction -- Neuroinformatics: the issues -- Introduction to databases -- Modeling and simulation -- Modeling the brain -- NSL neural simulation language -- EONS: a multi-level modeling system and its applications -- Brain imaging and synthetic PET -- Databases for neuroscience time series -- Repositories for the storage of experimental neuroscience data -- Design concepts for neurocore and neuroscience databases -- User interaction with neurocore -- Atlas-based databases -- Interactive brain maps and atlases -- Perspective: geographical information systems -- Neuroanatomical rat brain viewer (NeuARt) -- Neuro slicer: a tool for registering 2-D slice data to 3-D surface atlases -- Atlas-based database of neurochemical data -- Data management -- Federating neuroscience databases -- Dynamic classification ontologies -- Annotator: annotation technology for the WWW -- Management of space in hierarchical storage systems -- Summary databases and model repositories -- Summary databases and model repositories -- Brain models on the web and the need for summary data -- Knowledge mechanics and the neuroscholar project: a new approach to neuroscientific theory -- Neurohomology database -- Introduction to informix -- Neurocore timeseries datablade -- USCBP development team -- Informix SQL quick reference -- USC brain project research personnel -- Doctoral theses from the USC brain project (May 1997-August 2)