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by hcarvalhoalves 4791 days ago
Doesn't seem to be same thing. OpenWorm is computer simulation, while the OP plans to build a model based on observing an actual living individual [1].

[1] http://nemaload.davidad.org/about
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davidad_ 4791 days ago
That's about right. My end product is also a computer simulation, as far as that goes, but I'm taking an obsessively data-driven approach, motivated by the advent of new technologies for single-neuron measurement and perturbation in living, behaving animals. Meanwhile, OpenWorm is taking a bottom-up approach, driven by physics and other first principles. We'll meet in the middle eventually.
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kanzure 4791 days ago
yo david, long time no talk.. did you ever get a chance to make use of this data set?

ftp://anonymous@ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/tjucikas/wormdatabase/results-12-06-08/Laura%20Grundy

It's a few thousand hours of videos of the worms under different stimulation conditions for observing/identifying common behaviors.

We miss you in IRC.

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bntlyb 4791 days ago
The videos and statistics, as well as a description of the setup used for the recordings can be found here:

http://wormbehavior.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/

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hcarvalhoalves 4791 days ago
BTW, what you're attempting blew my mind away. That's a nice hack involving many different disciplines, it will be amazing if you can pull this off.
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