I backed an OpenWorm Kickstarter campaign to earn a bragging right, so let me brag. :)<p>Seo Sanghyeon at <a href="http://www.openworm.org/supporters.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.openworm.org/supporters.html</a>
I am one of the scientists who contributed to OpenWorm with C.elegans behavioural data. We have launched an online repository of actual experiments for anyone to download and continue our research:
<a href="http://wormbehavior.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://wormbehavior.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/</a><p>Original paper:
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n9/full/nmeth.2560.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n9/full/nmeth.2560.h...</a>
Also check out this embodiment<p><a href="http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7985-a-worms-mind-in-a-lego-body.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...</a><p>And some implementation details<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745639" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8745639</a>
I find it interesting and also sobering that the connectome of the C. elegans is known since 1986 but it's still far from obvious what to do with it.