Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18368365›Full record

ReviewMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2007

Data mining through simulation.

William W Lytton, Mark Stewart

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Review in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

William W LyttonDepartment of Physiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Mark Stewart

Funding

Reverse Engineering Cortical CircuitryR01NS045612 · NINDS · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · PI LYTTON, WILLIAM W · 2004 to 2007
$926k
THALAMIC NEURON DYNAMICS AND ABSENCE EPILEPSYR01NS032187 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI LYTTON, WILLIAM W · 1999 to 2002
$576k
THALAMOCORTICAL NEURON DYNAMICS AND ABSENCE EPILEPSYR29NS032187 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI LYTTON, WILLIAM W · 1993 to 1997
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NINDS NIH HHS NS032187NINDS NIH HHS NS045612NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS045612
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Data integration is particularly difficult in neuroscience; we must organize vast amounts of data around only a few fragmentary functional hypotheses. It has often been noted that computer simulation, by providing explicit hypotheses for a particular system and bridging across different levels of organization, can provide an organizational focus, which can be leveraged to form substantive hypotheses. Simulations lend meaning to data and can be updated and adapted as further data come in. The use of simulation in this context suggests the need for simulator adjuncts to manage and evaluate data. We have developed a neural query system (NQS) within the NEURON simulator, providing a relational database system, a query function, and basic data-mining tools. NQS is used within the simulation context to manage, verify, and evaluate model parameterizations. More importantly, it is used for data mining of simulation data and comparison with neurophysiology.

Indexed as

Computer SimulationDatabase Management SystemsInformation Storage and RetrievalAnimalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID18368365
PMCPMC2633476

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