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Public Access Architecture Design of an FPGA-Hardware-Based Nervous System Emulation Remote Lab

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This paper presents a public access architecture design of a remote lab developed for remote experimentation with an emulation of the nervous system of C. elegans nematode. The objective of this system is to emulate the neural system and the virtual embodiment of a C. elegans worm and to let the biologists’ and neuroscientists’ community remotely evaluate different neuronal models, and observe and analyse the behaviour of the virtual worm corresponding to the neuronal model being evaluated. This paper first analyses related remote lab technologies which then is followed by the description of the adopted architecture design, selected cloud deployment option and remote user interface approach.

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This work was partially funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme under grant FP7-601215 (Si elegans).

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    Gorka Epelde, Andoni Mujika, Peter Leškovský & Alessandro De Mauro

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Epelde, G., Mujika, A., Leškovský, P., De Mauro, A. (2015). Public Access Architecture Design of an FPGA-Hardware-Based Nervous System Emulation Remote Lab. In: Herrero, Á., Baruque, B., Sedano, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) International Joint Conference. CISIS 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 369. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_49

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