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Dear Colleagues, We have recently published a commentary on the creation of a comprehensive coordinate database in NeuroImage. In this article, we review existing coordinate databases and discuss the importance of building a coordinate database containing all neuroimaging papers. As we feel that the neuroimaging community should be consulted about the relevant issues concerning such a database (e.g., utility, essential features, possible approaches), we have created a brief survey. The results of this survey shall be published in order to inform future database development. The questionnaire is available here: http://www.tinyurl.com/db-survey We want to collect the views of as many neuroimagers as possible, so please take this opportunity to voice your opinion! And please forward this e-mail to any interested colleagues. The questionnaire can be filled out without having read the article; however, it might be helpful to have read the paper first. The article can be downloaded here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.053 Please also note that in the same issue there are four published responses to our commentary, written by Antonia Hamilton, Finn Nielsen, David Van Essen, and Angie Laird, Jack Lancaster, and Peter Fox. If you have any questions about our article or the questionnaire, feel free to contact us. Sincerely, Jan Derrfuss ([log in to unmask] | http://www.jan-derrfuss.de) Raymond Mar ([log in to unmask] | http://www.yorku.ca/mar/) P.S. Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. We felt it would be important to try to reach as many in the community as possible and therefore posted to multiple mailing lists.