The Allen Brain Science Institute introduces machine learning technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to construct the primary brain map. It’s explained that the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) is important to process large-scale brain data.
CNBC reported that AWS announced its collaboration with the Allen Institute on the AWS Summit 2023 held on the Walter E. Convention Center in Washington DC on the seventh (local time).
Based on this, AWS supports AI and ML technologies through the cloud to construct the Allen Institute’s ‘Brain Knowledge Platform’.
The Brain Knowledge Platform is a high-resolution map of the brain that may discover how individual cells within the brain affect cognition through single-cell genomics technology, ultimately serving because the world’s largest open-source brain cell database. Through this, it is meant to discover the explanation for diseases resembling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
“This platform acts just like the periodic table of chemistry or the genome project that revolutionized genetics,” said Ed Lane, a senior researcher on the Allen Institute.
The Allen Institute, the world’s best on this field, has vast amounts of information on brain science. Image data utilized in brain research often amounts to petabytes (1,000 trillion bytes) and even exabytes (1,000 times a petabyte). “To process 40 petabytes of information, someone would have to look at 4K video 24 hours a day, 7 days every week for 100 years,” said Roland Ealing, Director of International Public Sector Health at AWS.
Such data will proceed to grow in the longer term, but the issue is that the majority of them are disorganized and distributed, making it difficult for researchers to access. Due to this fact, the Allen Institute announced that it will successfully interpret scattered data by utilizing AWS’s AI technology.
“While it remains to be in its infancy, inside the subsequent five years we’ll construct a brain knowledge platform to integrate disparate neuroscience information,” Lane said. will probably be great,” he said.
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