Neurokernel: An Open Source Platform for Emulating the Fruit Fly Brain
Fig 10
In vivo validation is essential to the development of accurate fly brain models.
Neural responses to sensory stimuli are recorded from the live fly brain in real time and compared to the computed responses of the corresponding components in a fly brain model executed on the same time scale. Discrepancies between these responses and new connectome data may be used to improve the model’s accuracy (fruit fly photograph adapted from Berger and fly robot image adapted from Vizcano, Benton, Gerber, and Louis, both reproduced with permission).