Figure 5.

Role of scientists and biocurators. (A) People who are involved in a publication of journal papers. Scientists (e.g., postdoctoral fellows and senior PhD students) play decisive roles in materializing the overall project envisaged by the laboratory head. Technical staff helps scientists but cannot by themselves complete the study for writing up the papers. (B) People who are involved in a publication of databases such as digital brain atlases. Biocurators perform the roles that are equivalent to that of scientists for writing papers. Without them, technical staff cannot complete the database.