Human brain to be built using supercomputer

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ANI:Scientists are trying to build human brain using the world’s most powerful computer.

It is intended to combine all the information so far uncovered about its mysterious workings -- and replicate them on a screen, right down to the level of individual cells and molecules.

If it works it could be revolutionary for understanding devastating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and even shedding light into how we think, and make decisions.

Professor Henry Markram, based in Switzerland, is leading the project and will be working with scientists from across Europe including the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute at Cambridge.

They hope to complete it within 12 years.

"The complexity of the brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons, makes it hard for neuroscientists to truly understand how it works. Simulating it will make it much easier -- allowing them to manipulate and measure any aspect of the brain,” he said.

Housed at a facility in Dusseldorf in Germany, the ‘brain’ will feature thousands of three-dimensional images built around a semi-circular ‘cockpit’ so scientists can virtually ‘fly’ around different areas and watch how they communicate with each other.

It aims to integrate all the neuroscience research being carried out all over the world -- an estimated 60,000 scientific papers every year -- into one platform.

The project has received some funding from the EU and has been shortlisted for a 1 billion euro EU grant, which will be decided next month.

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