Towards a virtual fly brain

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1896, 2009, Pages 2387-2397

  Armstong, J Douglas ^a   Van Hemert, Jano I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Drosophila melanogaster; Escience; Neuroinformatics; Virtual brain

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; RESEARCH; SIMULATORS;

BRAIN RESEARCH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CURRENT SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDINGS; ESCIENCE; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL SIMULATIONS; FUTURE MODELS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECT BRAIN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROINFORMATICS; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PHENOTYPIC DATA; SENSORY INPUT; VIRTUAL BRAIN;

BRAIN MODELS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67650872904     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0308     Document Type: Article

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