The Blue Brain project understands itself as pioneer project to understand the function mode of the brain by the education of computer models largely put on. It was brought by Henry Mark RAM Brain and Mind institutes of the Polytechnique in Lausanne (Switzerland) and IBM in May 2005 into being. An important intermediate objective of the project is Blue Column, the complete simulation of a neokortikalen column on cellular level. Neokortikale columns have a height of 2 and a diameter of 0,5 millimeters. With humans they contain about of 60000 neurons. Blue Column refers to rats, whose kortikale columns contain about 10000 nerve cells and approximately 108 synapses. The simulation goes beyond the concept of the neural net: it is based in biologically more plausible and more complex models of different nerve cell types. Are used the Neocortical simulator (NCS), developed by Phil Goodman, in combination with Michael Hines software NEURON. The simulation is to be computed on a Blue of genes supercomputers. Blue Column is to be realized within 2-3 years and be tested afterwards with a set of empirical data. Subsequently, the development in two directions is to be continued:

1. Simulation of a kortikalen column on molecular level, in order to be able to examine e.g. the meaning of Genexpression
2. To interlace and parallel to simulate be able simplification of the simulation with the goal a large number from columns to. The final goal is the simulation of a complete Neokortex, which consists kortikalen columns with humans of about 1 million.

Into perspective different researchers are world-wide own models of different brain regions to provide and into an Internet data base to high-load to be able. The Blue Brain software is to network these modules and to compose of it the first simulation of a complete brain.

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• http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch/ homepage of the Blue Brain of project
• Henry Mark RAM, "“The Blue Brain Project"”, Nature Neuroscience Review, 7:153 - 160, 2006 February. PMID 16429124.

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