The Allen Institute for Brain Science—a research organization started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—has published a database of properties of individual neurons from human and mouse brains. The data includes information about cells’ electrical activity, their structure, sequencing information about cells’ RNA, and a variety of different models that can simulate neuronal activity based on these cell properties. This data can enable researchers to better understand differences between types of neurons and eventually create larger simulations to study brain disorders such as epilepsy and autism.
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