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Presentation at the OpenAIRE-COAR Conference: "Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together", Athens - May 21-22, 2014. Global collaborative neuroscience: Building the brain from big data, by Sean Hill - co-Director of Neuroinformatics in the Human Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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The Human Brain Project: Building the brain from big data
!Sean Hill
Co-Director, Blue Brain Project Co-Director, Neuroinformatics, Human Brain Project
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland !!
Co-Executive Directors: Henry Markram, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland
Karlheinz Meier, Kirchoff Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany Richard Frackowiak, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV,
Switzerland !
www.humanbrainproject.eu
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill Is daily spun; but there exists no loom To weave it into fabric; Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1939
Developmental Disorders• Autism spectrum disorders • ADHD • Learning disorders, conduct
disorders • Strong genetic disorders
(Fragile X, Down’s etc)
Adolescent Disorders• Depression, Suicide • Eating disorders • Bipolar disorder • Conduct disorders and violence • Borderline syndrome • Adjustment disorders • Anxiety, phobias, suicide • Tourette’s syndrome • Epilepsy
• Schizophrenia • Epilepsy • Mood disorders, hysterias,
anxieties and phobias • Obsessive compulsive disorders • Eating disorders, sexual disorders • Sleep disorders, stress disorders • Impulse control disorders • Substance abuse disorders • PTSD/TBI
Adult Disorders
• Depression • Dementia • Neurodegenerative disorders
• Alzheimer’s • Parkinson’s • Huntington’s
• Memory disorders
Aging Disorders
Glutamate !Nutrition !Dopamine !Genes !Sugar !GABA !Myelin !Serotonin !Metals !Dopamine !Toxins !Acetylcholine !Protein misfolding
Microarrays Electron Microscopy
Confocal Microscopy
Single Cell PCR Protein quan8fica8on Magne8c bead
Gene sequencing
Gene silencing Gene over-‐expression Gene8c vectors Two-‐hybrid
system Protein separa8on
Wholecell &Inside-‐Out Patch
Laser micro-‐dissec8on Cell culture Fluorescence
microscopyCellular tracing
Cell sor8ng
In situ hybridiza8on
Rhodopsin vectors
Immuno-‐detec8on amplified by T7 Mass-‐spectroscopy
Organelle transfec8on
Spa8al Proteomics
Immuno-‐staining
Mul8 Electrode Array Extracellular Recording Dye Imaging 2DE proteomics Tissue
transfec8onEnzyma8c-‐ac8vity measurement
Behavioral Studies UltramicroscopyMagnet Resonance Diffusion Imaging fMRI EEG Transgenic lines
What is the Human Brain Project?
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A 10-year European initiative to launch a global, collaborative effort to understand the human brain, enabling advances in neuroscience, medicine and future computing. !One of the two final projects selected for funding as a FET Flagship from 2013. !Officially launched October 1, 2013. !A consortium of 256 researchers from 135 research groups, 81 partner institutions in 22 countries across Europe, America and Asia. !€ 74M funding for the first 30 months. €1 billion/10 years.
What is a FET Flagship?
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Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagships are ambitious large-scale, science-driven, research initiativesthat aim to achieve a visionary goal. !The scientific advance should provide a strong and broad basis for future technological innovation and economic exploitation in a variety of areas, as well as novel benefits for society. !Objective is to keep Europe competitive and drive technological innovation
Goal
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The Human Brain Project should: !•Lay the technical foundations for a new model of ICT-based brain research !
•Drive integration between data and knowledge from different disciplines !
•Catalyze a community effort to achieve a new understanding of the brain, new treatments for brain disease and new brain-like computing technologies.
Research Areas
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Neuroscience !
Integrate everything we know about the brain into computer models and simulations !!Medicine !
Contribute to understanding, diagnosing and treating diseases of the brain !!Future Computing !Learn from the brain to build the supercomputers of tomorrow
Scientific organization
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Organisation of HBP Scientific
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Generate and interpret strategically selected data needed to build multilevel atlases and unifying models of the brain.
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stellation of symptoms, matches what we see in real life, that virtual chain of events becomes a candidate for a disease mecha-nism, and we can even begin to look for potential therapeutic targets along it.
This process is intensely iterative. We integrate all the data we can find and pro-gram the model to obey certain biological rules, then run a simulation and compare the “output,” or resulting behavior of pro-teins, cells and circuits, with relevant ex-perimental data. If they do not match, we go back and check the accuracy of the data and refine the biological rules. If they do match, we bring in more data, adding ever more detail while expanding our model to a larger portion of the brain. As the soft-ware improves, data integration becomes faster and automatic, and the model be-haves more like the actual biology. Model-ing the whole brain, when our knowledge of cells and synapses is still incomplete, no longer seems an impossible dream.
To feed this enterprise, we need data and lots of them. Ethical concerns restrict the experiments that neuroscientists can perform on the human brain, but fortu-nately the brains of all mammals are built according to common rules, with species-specific variations. Most of what we know about the genetics of the mammalian brain comes from mice, while monkeys have giv-en us valuable insights into cognition. We can therefore begin by building a unifying model of a rodent brain and then using it as a starting template from which to de-velop our human brain model—gradually integrating detail after detail. Thus, the models of mouse, rat and human brains will develop in parallel.
The data that neuroscientists generate will help us identify the rules that govern brain organization and verify experimen-tally that our extrapolations—those pre-dicted chains of causation—match the bi-ological truth. At the level of cognition, we know that very young babies have some grasp of the numerical concepts 1, 2 and 3 but not of higher numbers. When we are finally able to model the brain of a new-born, that model must recapitulate both what the baby can do and what it cannot.
A great deal of the data we need al-ready exist, but they are not easily accessi-ble. One major challenge for the HBP will be to pool and organize them. Take the medical arena: those data are going to be immensely valuable to us not only be-cause dysfunction tells us about normal
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However, !
HBP is NOT primarily a data generation project !
It IS a data integration project.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.!-Richard Feynman
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The Integrative Role of Theory in the HBP
Theories of computing
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Bridging layers of biology
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ICT Platforms
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An integrated network of ICT platforms of the HBP
Figure 48: The HBP Platforms – physical infrastructure. Neuromorphic Computing: Heidelberg, Germany & Manchester, United Kingdom; Neurorobotics: Munich, Germany; High Performance Computing: Julich, Germany & Lugano, Switzerland, Barcelona, Spain & Bologna, Italy; Brain Simulation: Lausanne, Switzerland; Theory Institute: Paris, France
Six new open access ICT platforms: !1. Neuroinformatics
2. Brain Simulation
3. Medical Informatics
4. High Performance Computing
5. Neuromorphic Computing 6. Neurorobotics
!For the entire research community.
Neuroinformatics Platform
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Provide technical capabilities to federate neuroscience data, analyze structural and functional brain data and to build and navigate multi-level brain atlases. This involves: !•spatial and temporal data registration •ontology development and semantic annotation •predictive neuroscience •machine learning, data mining •track provenance, build workflows. !Goal: enable an integrated view of the neuroscience data. Prepare data for modeling pipelines
Multiscale and Multimodal Brain Atlases
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Data registered to standard coordinate spaces:- collections of spatially and semantically registered and searchable data, models and literature
Mouse atlas data courtesy of Allen Ins8tute for Brain Science
• Share data: Secure access, authorization, collaborative • Curate data: Data annotation, quality control, consistency check • Publish data: Data citation, community rating and reviews • Preserve data: Versioning, archive, mirror, replicate • Federate data: Tens to hundreds of thousands of members of the
federation • Federated search: Search over all data, free text, ontology-based or spatial
search • Ease of use: Lightweight! Dropbox-like functionality, easy metadata
annotation, portal for search • Access data: Object-based view of data, semantic annotations, data
models, flexible metadata • Analyze and integrate data: Support data analysis, workflow building,
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Requirements: Global Neuroinformatics Infrastructure
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Global shared data (INCF DataSpace)
Data access, query and provenance services
Portals, Search, Applications
Analytic Services
Neuroinformatics Infrastructure
Digital Atlasing services
Private LabSpace(Curated data)
Global Public KnowledgeSpace (Published data)
Data management strategy
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DATASPACE• Don’t centralize - federate
• INCF Global datasharing infrastructure
• Federated data management
• Dropbox-like Ease of Use
• Highly scalable - index petabytes of data
• Robust Infrastructure
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Knowledge integration strategy
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•INCF Community encyclopedia •Living review articles •Curated data •Build and maintain working ontologies •Links to data, models and literature •Define all vocabulary, terms, protocols, brain structures, diseases, etc •Semantic organization, search, analysis and integration •Global directory of all shared vocabularies, CDEs, etc
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Brain Simulation Platform
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Provide technical capabilities to build and simulate multi-scale brain models at different levels of detail.
•internet portal for neuroscientists •modeling tools •workflows •simulation •virtual instruments (EM, LFP, fMRI, etc) •link to virtual body and environment •in silico experiments
Goal: Integrate large volumes of heterogeneous data in multi-scale models of the mouse and human brains, and to simulate their dynamics.
Enable neuroscientists to ask new questions and prioritize experiments.
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311 variance between different lines (C57BL/6 and Kunming) of mouse312 seems greater than the variance among different individuals in the313 same line (C57BL/6).314 To compare the laminar distribution in different cortical regions, we315 extracted the image stacks of the other two cortical regions in the left316 hemisphere of a C57 mouse brain, the posteromedial barrel subfield317 (PMBSF, AP: Bregma, −0.22 mm, ML: Bregma, +3.25 mm, DV:318 Bregma, +2 mm) and the primary visual cortex (V1, AP: Bregma,319 −3.88 mm, ML: Bregma, +2.5 mm, DV: Bregma, +1.25 mm). The320 inner cells and blood vessels were vectorized and reconstructed (Sup-321 plementary Figs. 5a–e). In the barrel cortex, the vascular diameters322 were estimated both in vivo and in vitro for evaluation (Supplementary323 Fig. 6e). The estimated diameter histogram showed that the diameter324 distribution peaked in 3–6 μm both in vivo and in vitro, which is also325 in good agreement with the histograms from Tsai et al. (2009). Note326 that a penetrating vessel had a sinuous path in the middle layer of the327 barrel cortex (Supplementary Fig. 5b), which is consistent with an ob-328 servation in the human brain (Duvernoy et al., 1981). The cellular and329 vascular distribution parameters were computed along the cortical330 axial direction (Fig. 5). As expected, the cell number density varied331 greatly among different cortical regions, especially near layer IV332 (Fig. 5a). The densities in the granular (PMBSF), and partially granular
333cortex (V1), were relatively higher than in the agranular cortex (M1).334The smallest distances from cells to the nearest blood vessels were335near the middle layers (Fig. 5b). For the vascular length densities336(Fig. 5c) andmicrovascular fractional volumes (Fig. 5d), the peak values337were also located near layer IV. Interestingly, we noticed that the vascu-338lar density values in layers I, V and VI were similar (Figs. 5c, d). For339quantitative evaluation, we computed the standard deviation of three340cortical regions in different layers and found that the variation in vascu-341lar density was significantly higher in the middle layers (20%–50% cor-342tical depth, near layer II/III and IV) than in the upper and lower layers343(p b 0.01).
344Areal configurations of cells and blood vessels
345Mainly limited by imaging depth, most of the 3D optical imaging346and quantitative analysis techniques was restricted in the part of the347cerebral cortex (about 1 mm3), leaving the deeper brain areas largely348uncharted. Our customized protocol enabled us to analyze the detailed349cellular and vascular configurations on a brain-wide scale. We350extracted three additional image stacks in the mouse brain: frontal351association cortex (FrA, AP: Bregma,+2.58 mm,ML: Bregma,+1.5 mm,352DV: Bregma,+1.5 mm), striatum (AP: Bregma,+0.02 mm,ML: Bregma,
Fig. 4. Reconstruction and colocalization of vectorized cells and blood vessels inM1. (a) 3D reconstruction of the cytoarchitecture inM1. The green points represent detected cellular cen-troids. (b) The surface rendering of thevasculature showshowsome large vessels penetrate into the cerebral cortex. The curved tubes represent the traced blood vessels, and the diametersof the blood vessels are encoded as indicated by the color bar. The white arrow indicates a large penetrating vessel, the diameter of which exceeds 60 μm. The pial vascular network wasmanual labeled and rendered to give an anatomical context. The size of the gray bounding box is 600 μm × 600 μm × 920 μm. (c) An enlarged view of the white box in (a, b) showscolocalization of the cells (green) and blood vessels (red). The size of the white bounding box is 200 μm × 200 μm × 100 μm.
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274 and previous definitions (Blinder et al., 2013; Heinzer et al., 2006; Tsai275 et al., 2009).
276 Results
277 High resolution 3D datasets of whole mouse brains
278 Four 3D datasets of the whole mouse brains were obtained at a sec-279 tioning thickness of 1 μm with a lateral pixel size of 0.4 μm × 0.35 μm280 (Figs. 1, 3a–c, Supplementary Video 2). Cells and blood vessels can be281 simultaneously distinguished by voxel intensity (Figs. 1f–j, 3f–h), and282 brain-wide background intensity is uniform after preprocessing283 (Figs. 1a–e, 3a–c). In addition, little data was lost while sectioning, and284 the morphology of the cells and blood vessels that spanned the section285 boundaries was well maintained (Figs. 1f–j, Supplementary Figs. 2c–f).286 Furthermore, the cytoarchitecture and vascular architecture could be vi-287 sualized using minimum (Fig. 2d) and maximum intensity projections288 respectively (Fig. 2g), and some brain structures, such as the olfactory289 bulb, hippocampus, and striatum can be clearly identified (Figs. 1a–e,290 3b–d).
291Laminar configurations of cells and blood vessels
292In order to obtain a normative anatomy of laminar configurations of293cells and blood vessels, we computed the cellular and vascular configu-294rations in M1 of three mouse brains (the two hemispheres in two C57295mice, left hemisphere in a Kunmingmouse brain). We cropped the cor-296onal images in the primary motor cortex (M1, AP: Bregma, +1.18 mm,297ML: Bregma, +1.75 mm, DV: Bregma, +1.75 mm) according to a298mouse brain atlas (Paxinos and Franklin, 2001). The image stacks299were virtually resliced parallel to the pial surface and were cropped300(600 μm × 600 μm) to cover Q5the entire cortical depth. The inner cells301and blood vessels were vectorized and reconstructed (Fig. 4). Due to302the curved nature of the pial surface and the cortical layers, the absolute303cortical range was hard to precisely localize in a large area of cortical304mantle. Therefore, 600 μm × 600 μm sections of the pial surface were305divided into 200 μm × 200 μm squares, and the cortical depth in each306square was normalized to allow direct comparison of different layers.307The laminar densities of the cells and blood vessels were successfully vi-308sualized, and the results show amismatch between cellular density and309vascular density (Supplementary Fig. 7), which is in agreement with310previous results (Tsai et al., 2009). The result suggested that the
Fig. 3. 3Ddataset of awholemouse brain used to simultaneously visualize the cells and blood vessels. (a) 3D reconstruction of thewholemouse brainwith a corner-cut view. (b, c) Sagittal andcoronal sections in (a) (thickness: 1 μm) show the inner structures of the whole mouse brain. Note that the background intensity is uniform. (d) Minimum intensity projection of (c) (thick-ness: 30 μm,posterior direction) shows the cytoarchitecture. (e)Maximum intensity projection of (c) (thickness: 200 μm,posterior direction) shows vascular architecture. (f) Enlarged viewofthe cortical region indicated by the white box in (c) shows simultaneous cross-sections of cells (black) and blood vessels (white). (g) The enlarged view of the cortical region indicated by thewhite box in (d) shows the laminar cytoarchitecture in the neocortex. Layers I to VI can be clearly distinguished. (h) Enlarged viewof the cortical region indicated by thewhite box in (e) showsthe vascular architecture, including capillaries, in the neocortex. The diameters of the large penetrating vessels are approximately 23 μmand thediameter of small capillaries are less than 3 μm.Note that the capillaries are interconnected with few gaps, suggesting complete labeling of the vascular network.
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274 and previous definitions (Blinder et al., 2013; Heinzer et al., 2006; Tsai275 et al., 2009).
276 Results
277 High resolution 3D datasets of whole mouse brains
278 Four 3D datasets of the whole mouse brains were obtained at a sec-279 tioning thickness of 1 μm with a lateral pixel size of 0.4 μm × 0.35 μm280 (Figs. 1, 3a–c, Supplementary Video 2). Cells and blood vessels can be281 simultaneously distinguished by voxel intensity (Figs. 1f–j, 3f–h), and282 brain-wide background intensity is uniform after preprocessing283 (Figs. 1a–e, 3a–c). In addition, little data was lost while sectioning, and284 the morphology of the cells and blood vessels that spanned the section285 boundaries was well maintained (Figs. 1f–j, Supplementary Figs. 2c–f).286 Furthermore, the cytoarchitecture and vascular architecture could be vi-287 sualized using minimum (Fig. 2d) and maximum intensity projections288 respectively (Fig. 2g), and some brain structures, such as the olfactory289 bulb, hippocampus, and striatum can be clearly identified (Figs. 1a–e,290 3b–d).
291Laminar configurations of cells and blood vessels
292In order to obtain a normative anatomy of laminar configurations of293cells and blood vessels, we computed the cellular and vascular configu-294rations in M1 of three mouse brains (the two hemispheres in two C57295mice, left hemisphere in a Kunmingmouse brain). We cropped the cor-296onal images in the primary motor cortex (M1, AP: Bregma, +1.18 mm,297ML: Bregma, +1.75 mm, DV: Bregma, +1.75 mm) according to a298mouse brain atlas (Paxinos and Franklin, 2001). The image stacks299were virtually resliced parallel to the pial surface and were cropped300(600 μm × 600 μm) to cover Q5the entire cortical depth. The inner cells301and blood vessels were vectorized and reconstructed (Fig. 4). Due to302the curved nature of the pial surface and the cortical layers, the absolute303cortical range was hard to precisely localize in a large area of cortical304mantle. Therefore, 600 μm × 600 μm sections of the pial surface were305divided into 200 μm × 200 μm squares, and the cortical depth in each306square was normalized to allow direct comparison of different layers.307The laminar densities of the cells and blood vessels were successfully vi-308sualized, and the results show amismatch between cellular density and309vascular density (Supplementary Fig. 7), which is in agreement with310previous results (Tsai et al., 2009). The result suggested that the
Fig. 3. 3Ddataset of awholemouse brain used to simultaneously visualize the cells and blood vessels. (a) 3D reconstruction of thewholemouse brainwith a corner-cut view. (b, c) Sagittal andcoronal sections in (a) (thickness: 1 μm) show the inner structures of the whole mouse brain. Note that the background intensity is uniform. (d) Minimum intensity projection of (c) (thick-ness: 30 μm,posterior direction) shows the cytoarchitecture. (e)Maximum intensity projection of (c) (thickness: 200 μm,posterior direction) shows vascular architecture. (f) Enlarged viewofthe cortical region indicated by the white box in (c) shows simultaneous cross-sections of cells (black) and blood vessels (white). (g) The enlarged view of the cortical region indicated by thewhite box in (d) shows the laminar cytoarchitecture in the neocortex. Layers I to VI can be clearly distinguished. (h) Enlarged viewof the cortical region indicated by thewhite box in (e) showsthe vascular architecture, including capillaries, in the neocortex. The diameters of the large penetrating vessels are approximately 23 μmand thediameter of small capillaries are less than 3 μm.Note that the capillaries are interconnected with few gaps, suggesting complete labeling of the vascular network.
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Bruno Weber, University of Zürich
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In progress: Scaling infrastructure to the whole rodent brain
High Performance Computing Platform
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Provide the project and the community with: •The computing power necessary to build and simulate models of the brain. •Develop new supercomputing technology, up to the exascale •Drive new capabilities for interactive computing and visualization.
High Performance Computing Challenges
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Computa.onal Complexity
Memory Requirements
O(1 MB)
O(10 GB)
O(1 TB)
O(100 TB)
O(100 PB)
Single Cell Model
Cellular Neocor.cal Column O(10,000x cell)
Cellular MesocircuitO(100x NCC)
Cellular Rat BrainO(100x Mesocircuit)
Cellular Human Brain O(1,000x Rat Brain)
O(Gigaflops) O(10 Teraflops) O(100 Teraflops) O(1 Petaflops) O(1 Exaflops)
EPFL 4-‐rack BlueGene/L
CADMOS 4-‐rack BlueGene/P
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(1,000x memory)
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(1,000x memory)
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(1,000x memory) Glia-‐Cell Integra.on O(10x memory) Vasculature O(1x memory)
Par.cles O(10-‐100x memory) Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(1,000x memory) Glia-‐Cell Integra.on O(10x memory) Vasculature O(1x memory)
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(100-‐1,000x performance) Plas.city O(1-‐10x performance)
Local Field Poten.als (1x performance)
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(100-‐1,000x performance) Glia-‐Cell Integra.on O(1-‐10x performance)
Vasculature O(1x performance) Electric Field Interac.on O(1-‐10x performance)
Plas.city O(1-‐10x performance)
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(100-‐1,000x performance) Glia-‐Cell Integra.on O(1-‐10x performance)
EEG (1-‐10x performance) Vasculature O(1x performance) Plas.city O(1-‐10x performance)
Behavior O(10-‐100x performance)
Reac.on-‐Diffusion O(100-‐1,000x performance)
Medical Informatics
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•Federate clinical data from hospital archives and proprietary databases, while providing strong protection for patient data. !
•Enable researchers to develop data-driven “biological signatures” of diseases. !
•Develop new approaches to understanding the causes of disease and identifying effective treatments
Disease signatures
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Disease signatures
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Neuromorphic Computing Platform
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Simulate models on low power hardware chips. Build off of BrainScaleS and Spinnaker projects to provide ability to run large-scale simulations at or beyond real time with low power consumption.
Neurorobotics Platform
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Enable closed-loop simulations of behavior. Virtual bodies, sensory input and environments to couple with the simulations. This platform is key to providing sensory input to the simulations and depicting the motor outputs.
Applications: Understanding principles of cognition
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Figure 28: Use of the HBP platforms to study mechanisms and principles of cognition: comparing simulated and biological humans and mice on the same cognitive task (touchscreen approach)
Use Case 1: Tracing causal mechanisms of cognition
Benchmark species
comparison
In silico species
comparison
Simulation- robot
closed loop
Simulation- robot
closed loop
Virtual- biological
comparison
Virtual- biological
comparison
Applications: Developing new drugs for brain disorders
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Figure 29: Use of the HBP platforms to accelerate drug development. Optimizing drug discovery and clinical trials
Use Case 2: Developing new drugs for brain disorders
Model of healthy brain
Model of diseased brain
Target identification
New drug
Clinical trials
Side effects
In silico search for treatments
Computational chemistry &Molecular Dynamics simulations
Preclinical trials
Binding kinetics
Multi-level biological signature of disease
Applications: Developing neuromorphic controllers
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Use Case 3: Developing neuromorphic controllers for car engines
Figure 30: Use of the HBP platforms to accelerate the development of future computing technologies. Four steps: brain simulation; simplification; rapid prototyping; low-cost, low-power chips
Biologically detailed brain model
SELECTthe most suitable models of cognitive circuitry
EXPORTsimplified brain model and learning rules to generic neuromorphic system
Simplified brain model
TRAINneuromorphic circuit rapidly in closed loop with simulated robot in simulated environment
EXTRACTcustom, compact,
low-power, low-cost
neuromorphic designs
Cross-cutting Activities
•Explore ethical, social and philosophical implications •Engage public in dialogue
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•Provide young scientists with transdisciplinary knowledge and skills
•Generate widespread awareness of results, open access policy (publications, data, software tools)
•Ensure a cohesive and integrative effort •Collaborate with other European and international efforts
Ethics
Education
Dissemination
Governance
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Figure 38: Scientists identified to participate in the HBP. The scientists listed have agreed to participate in the HBP, if it is approved as a FET Flagship
The HBP Competitive Calls Programme
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~20% of funding (~200M€/10 years) allocated to open calls
The Initial HBP Consortium
Figure 40: Research institutions identified to participate in the HBP, if approved as a FET Flagship Project
Initial HBP Consortium
Europe
United Statesand Canada
Argentina
Israel
Japan
China
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For more information and a full list of leaders, partners and collaborators !please visit:
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