title: Megascience efforts and the brain.
abstract: Several recent megascale neuroscience efforts in the U.S. and Europe are concerned with developing infrastructure for tools, modeling, or neuroinformatics. It may seem surprising that they are not instead focused directly on gaining fundamental new insights into brain function.
authors.affiliation: Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: sten.grillner@ki.se.
authors.forename: Sten
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grillner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000639:trends*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States