抄録
In order to facilitate further understanding of the brain, we need an infrastructure to share the efforts such as sharing experimental data, analysis tools and computational models in interdisciplinary field. The Neuroinformatics (NI) Team established in April 2002 at RIKEN BSI aiming for the development of the Japanese NI and opened the “Visiome Platform”, the first public NI platform in Japan developed by the “NI Research in Vision” project (PI: S. Usui, 1999-2004). Meanwhile, the INCF was established in 2005, following the recommendation of the OECD MegaScience Forum. The NIJC (NI Japan Center) was then opened at RIKEN BSI as the INCF Japan-node. To further facilitate and encourage utilization of the NI databases, we developed a cloud-based “Simulation Platform”. This allows users to test more than hundreds of models with just a web browser. To construct a large scale model, the tested models can also be connected using a model integration environment called “PLATO”. As an application of the PLATO, we have developed a large scale visual system model on the K-computer. We believe that these achievements contribute to the next generation of neuroscience research including Medical and Biological Engineering.
