Sequencing the Connectome

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Zador, Anthony M ^a   Dubnau, Joshua ^a   Oyibo, Hassana K ^a,b   Zhan, Huiqing ^a   Cao, Gang ^a   Peikon, Ian D ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b Watson School for Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84868087331     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001411     Document Type: Article

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