Nature Reviews Neuroscience, volume 7, issue 2, pages 153-160

The Blue Brain Project

Henry Markram ¹

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the Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2006-02-01

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Journal: Nature Reviews Neuroscience

SJR: 7.860

CiteScore: 35.0

Impact factor: 28.7

ISSN: 1471003X, 14710048

DOI: 10.1038/nrn1848

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Markram describes the impressive aims of the Blue Brain Project, in which the enormous computing power of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer is being harnessed to build biologically accurate models of the neocortical column and, ultimately, the whole brain. IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer allows a quantum leap in the level of detail at which the brain can be modelled. I argue that the time is right to begin assimilating the wealth of data that has been accumulated over the past century and start building biologically accurate models of the brain from first principles to aid our understanding of brain function and dysfunction.

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AU - Markram, Henry

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@article{2006_Markram,

author = {Henry Markram},

title = {The Blue Brain Project},

journal = {Nature Reviews Neuroscience},

year = {2006},

volume = {7},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {feb},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn1848},

number = {2},

pages = {153--160},

doi = {10.1038/nrn1848}

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Markram, Henry. “The Blue Brain Project.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 7, no. 2, Feb. 2006, pp. 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn1848.

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Springer Nature

Journal

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

SJR

7.860

CiteScore

35.0

Impact factor

28.7

ISSN

1471003X (Print)

14710048 (Electronic)