Neuroscientists (scientists that study the brain) are trying to figure out how the brain works from the level of the gene- where genetic instructions in the cell are stored- to the level of behavior (how do you act in history class, for example?)

One way of doing this is to organize information from many different types of research studies – anatomy, physiology, and behavior- so that neuroscientists can look at all the information that has been collected in a comprehensive and meaningful way. Besides organizing the information
itself, new tools that change how the information is organized and put together with other sets of information need to be developed.

All of this falls into the field of Neuroinformatics - one of the most exciting frontiers of research about the brain and nervous system.