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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 153-160 (February 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrn1848
Opinion: The Blue Brain Project
Henry Markram1 About the author
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Abstract
IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer allows a quantum leap in the level of detail at which the brain can be modelled. I argue that the time is right to begin assimilating the wealth of data that has been accumulated over the past century and start building biologically accurate models of the brain from first principles to aid our understanding of brain function and dysfunction.
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Henry Markram is at the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland.
Email: henry.markram@epfl.ch
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