Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry
In 2015, Blue Brain reached a major milestone with the publication of a first draft of the digital reconstruction of neocortical microcircuitry (Markram et al, 2015). The study confirmed the feasibility of building and simulating a digital copy of a part of the brain and demonstrated that multidisciplinary Big Science in the field of neuroscience yields favorable results (82 scientists contributed to the study).
The paper published in the journal Cell, represents the most complete description of any neural microcircuit to date. It provides a complete digital map of all the cells and synapses in a block of neural tissue and describes simulation experiments replicating a range of previous in vivo experiments.
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