We present the design, use cases, and user feedback for an online visual
analysis tool for integrating brain-network findings. We report needs and
challenges in studying brain connectivity as identified in close
collaboration with domain experts and describe how they inform the design of
a web-based tool for visualizing, annotating, and analyzing findings on
rat-brain connectivity. By representing both the hierarchical and
connectivity structure of the brain, the tool augments the original
information space through basic inference and facilitates structured
exploration of publications on brain connectivity. We finally report use
cases and open challenges in this domain as derived from user feedback by
neuroscientists. We found anecdotal support that neuroscientists using a
multi-scale visual analysis tool can find useful connection information more
quickly or discover more information than by using traditional searches like
PubMed queries.