Case Study: Data Storage at The Salk Institute

摘要

Memories are made of this... changes in neu-ronal responsiveness to synaptic input, that is. Understanding the formation of memories and other brain activities is the vital work of scientists at the Computational Neurobiology Lab at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La folia, CA. Here, biologists investigate the computational resources of brains, from subcellu-lar communications (like the chemical changes that occur in cells when your brain "remembers" something) to system-level functions such as vision and learning. Researchers at the independent, nonprofit Institute (established in 1959 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine) strive daily to make scientific discoveries that will further our understanding of human health and ultimately lead to therapies and cures. Research applications include functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, 3D modeling and simulation of subcellular architecture and physiology, educational animations, and high-speed data acquisition for direct tissue-sample experimentation.