Data-driven neuroscience
Alexandros Stougiannis, Mirjana Pavlović, Farhan Tauheed, Thomas Heinis, Anastasia Ailamaki · 2013
Scientists in all disciplines increasingly rely on simulations to develop a better understanding of the subject they are studying. For example the neuroscientists we collaborate with in the Blue Brain project have started to simulate the brain on a supercomputer. The level of detail of their models is unprecedented as they model details on the subcellular level (e.g., the neurotransmitter). This level of detail, however, also leads to a true data deluge and the neuroscientists have only few tools to efficiently analyze the data.