中文摘要：

脑科学是公认的科技前沿,由于其内容的博大精深,人们根据相关内容涉及的空间尺度或研究视角的不同,定义了一系列的分支学科,如细胞神经生物学和计算神经科学。基于信息科学的大脑研究与应用,正在形成一个极富朝气与活力的新分支学科——脑信息科学（Brainformatics）,其主要内容包括脑信息获取、脑信息解码、和脑信息应用3个方面。列举这3个方面的一些具体内容,探讨脑信息科学的一些机遇与挑战。

英文摘要：

Brain science is a recognized frontier science and technology. It is now of extensive and profound content. Multiple branch disciplines have been setup,according to the spatial scale of the relevant content involved such as cellular neurobiology or the main tools adopted in study such as computational neuroscience.This paper pointed out that information science driven brain research is forming a new discipline——Brainformatics as a very vigor and vitality subject,with ＂ brain information acquisition ＂, ＂ brain information decoding＂ and ＂ brain information applications ＂ as the main contents. The paper illustrates some concrete contents of the three aspects. Finally the chances and challenges are discussed.