Project Digital-Bacillaria

This is a project to get the information regarding a diatom species called Bacillaria paxillifer. This will help to create the digital lifeforms of the species.

What is a Diatom?

Diatoms are single-celled algae. Diatoms are algae that live in houses made of glass. They are the only organism on the planet with cell walls composed of transparent, opaline silica. Diatom cell walls are ornamented by intricate and striking patterns of silica. For more information go to what-are-diatoms.

Why do we need to study the diatoms and make a digital library of their data?

Diatoms are very simple organisms to study and we can get a rough idea of how life works, because we don't even know what is exactly life ? or what is consciousness? By this project, we are going to understand the working of the diatoms and can simulate them in digital form.

Deep Learning for Diatom Non-neuronal Cognition

The aim of this project will be to improve upon a Deep Learning model that extracts morphological features from microscopy images of Bacillaria Paradoxa. This will allow our organization to begin creating a database for the study of movement behavior and non-neuronal cognition in simple multicellular organisms.