Sea slug nervous system - computer model

July 3, 2001
From: Linette Koren

Dear Bill:
I am a reference librarian who is searching for some information for a faculty member. This Computer Science faculty member is looking for any information (peer-reviewed article, I hope!) that talks about a computer model of the nervous system of a sea slug or flatworm. He says people talk about it like it exists but no one can provide a reference to it. I've searched quite a few databases and cannot locate anything that's even remotely close. I've looked in the science, computer science, engineering, and biomedical literature. He's beginning to believe that its existence is some kind of hoax or urban legend in the field.

Any help you or your Forum readers can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Linette Koren
Computer Science/Engineering Librarian
Rochester Institute of Technology

lxkwml@rit.edu

Koren, L., 2001 (Jul 3) Sea slug nervous system - computer model. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4690

Dear Linette,

Dr. Rhanor Gillette's research group [Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Center of Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] has a website called Slug City at http://www.life.uiuc.edu/r-gillette/.

If you go to the Models page on that site you can download a copy of their Optimal Foraging Simulation program for the cyberslug Cyberbranchaea. The name is a play on the name of the real carnivorous slug they have studied, Pleurobranchaea californica.

I guess its the Cyberbranchaea simulation that your faculty member is interested in. Not a peer-reviewed paper but the real thing which they can review themselves.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2001 (Jul 3). Comment on Sea slug nervous system - computer model by Linette Koren. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4690

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