Mission
Our mission is to empower researchers and organizations with advanced digital brain building technology to perform neuroscience at the speed of thought.
Central to OBI's mission is the establishment of a collaborative virtual laboratory infrastructure, known as “Virtual Labs”. This dynamic environment provides seamless access to advanced brain building tools and computational resources, including cloud compute clusters, specialized brain modeling and simulation software, and robust data analysis and visualization capabilities. These resources enable researchers to use, improve, refine and build advanced digital brain models and ultimately accelerate neuroscience research.
The Open Brain Institute’s core objective is to build a comprehensive repository of high-fidelity digital brain models, encompassing the complexity and diversity of brain tissue across species and at different scales. This repository serves as an invaluable resource for researchers globally, facilitating unprecedented exploration of brain structure and function. More than just a data archive, it is a dynamic and evolving resource and simulation environment, continuously updated with new data, software and model improvements.
The Virtual Labs are hosted on the Open Brain Platform and provide the following key functionalities:
Explore
Researchers conduct atlas-driven exploration of existing experimental data, model data, digital brain models, and simulations. This structured and systematic exploration is further enhanced by powerful literature mining tools ensuring that their investigations are grounded in the most current and relevant scientific information.Build
Researchers can use our tools to create custom brain models at multiple scales, either from scratch or by modifying existing models, empowering hypothesis testing and innovative approaches to understanding the brain.Experiment
Researchers can run experiments and model complex brain processes in a controlled, reproducible setting,— extending possibilities beyond traditional biological labs.Collaborate
We cultivate a spirit of global collaboration, offering integrated communication tools, shared data analysis, and joint model development capabilities, ensuring data integrity and attribution, while safeguarding research confidentiality.
Virtual labs to explore, build, and experiment digital brain models
Our integrated approach to digital brain modeling and collaborative virtual labs, aims to accelerate scientific discovery, democratize access to advanced research tools, and drive transformative breakthroughs in the treatment of neurological disorders, advancing cognitive science, and pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence.
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