Hardware and infrastructure

Hardware comprises the physical parts of a computer that can be touched, and infrastructure comprises the physical hardware used to connect computers to other computers and users.

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Research | 19 May 2022

A Long Short-Term Memory for AI Applications in Spike-based Neuromorphic Hardware

Deep learning could be less energy intensive when implemented on spike-based neuromorphic chips. An approach inspired by a characteristic feature of biological neurons, the presence of slowly changing internal currents, is developed to emulate long short-term memory units in a sparse spiking regime for neuromorphic implementation.
- Arjun Rao
- , Philipp Plank
- & Wolfgang Maass
Nature Machine Intelligence 4, 467-479
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14 February 2022 | Open Access

A machine learning-based on-demand sweat glucose reporting platform
- Devangsingh Sankhala
- , Abha Umesh Sardesai
- & Shalini Prasad
Scientific Reports 12, 2442
Research | 23 December 2021

FlyWire: online community for whole-brain connectomics

FlyWire is an online community and a platform for proofreading electron microscopy-based connectome data of the Drosophila brain.
- Sven Dorkenwald
- , Claire E. McKellar
- & H. Sebastian Seung
Nature Methods 19, 119-128
Research
08 November 2021 | Open Access

Wearable sensor derived decompensation index for continuous remote monitoring of COVID-19 diagnosed patients
- Dylan M. Richards
- , MacKenzie J. Tweardy
- & Stephan W. Wegerich
npj Digital Medicine 4, 155
Research
15 October 2021 | Open Access

Scaling up DNA digital data storage by efficiently predicting DNA hybridisation using deep learning
- David Buterez
Scientific Reports 11, 20517
Research | 17 September 2021

Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times

Spiking neural networks promise fast and energy-efficient information processing. The ‘time-to-first-spike’ coding scheme, where the time elapsed before a neuron’s first spike is utilized as the main variable, is a particularly efficient approach and Göltz and Kriener et al. demonstrate that error backpropagation, an essential ingredient for learning in neural networks, can be implemented in this scheme.
- J. Göltz
- , L. Kriener
- & M. A. Petrovici
Nature Machine Intelligence 3, 823-835

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Correspondence | 30 September 2020

A novel computational architecture for large-scale genomics
- Matthias Becker
- , Hartmut Schultze
- & Joachim L. Schultze
Nature Biotechnology 38, 1239-1241
Comments & Opinion | 07 December 2016

Interactive and scalable biology cloud experimentation for scientific inquiry and education

A real-time interactive, fully automated, low-cost and scalable biology cloud experimentation platform could provide access to scientific experimentation for learners and researchers alike.
- Zahid Hossain
- , Engin W Bumbacher
- & Ingmar H Riedel-Kruse
Nature Biotechnology 34, 1293-1298
Comments & Opinion | 30 December 2015

How good can cryo-EM become?

Cryo-EM has emerged rapidly as a method for determining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. The author of this Commentary discusses just how much better this technology may get and how fast such developments are likely to happen.
- Robert M Glaeser
Nature Methods 13, 28-32
Editorial | 27 June 2013

Sharing blueprints for better research

Like software before it, open-source hardware promises to encourage collaborative tinkering and promote access to innovative technologies.

Nature Methods 10, 591
News & Views | 30 July 2012

Connecting ecology and conservation through experiment

An experimental infrastructure consisting of environmentally controlled and spatially linked habitat patches permits studies on terrestrial animal dispersal at an unprecedented scale for an experiment with such strict control.
- Nick M Haddad
Nature Methods 9, 794-795
Comments & Opinion | 23 June 2011

The two-week sabbatical

Could short, non-traditional sabbaticals help scientists better organize their research groups and make improvements to their laboratory's IT infrastructure? Bruce Gibb ponders this question.
- Bruce C. Gibb
Nature Chemistry 3, 495-496

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Hardware and infrastructure

Latest Research and Reviews

A Long Short-Term Memory for AI Applications in Spike-based Neuromorphic Hardware

A machine learning-based on-demand sweat glucose reporting platform

FlyWire: online community for whole-brain connectomics

Wearable sensor derived decompensation index for continuous remote monitoring of COVID-19 diagnosed patients

Scaling up DNA digital data storage by efficiently predicting DNA hybridisation using deep learning

Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times

News and Comment

A novel computational architecture for large-scale genomics

Interactive and scalable biology cloud experimentation for scientific inquiry and education

How good can cryo-EM become?

Sharing blueprints for better research

Connecting ecology and conservation through experiment

The two-week sabbatical

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