Data mining opens the door to predictive neuroscience
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 23:30
in Biology & Nature
The discovery, using state-of-the-art informatics tools, increases the likelihood that it will be possible to predict much of the fundamental structure and function of the brain without having to measure every aspect of it. That in turn makes the Holy Grail of modeling the brain in silico -- the goal of the proposed Human Brain Project -- a more realistic, less Herculean, prospect.