Re:Scientists trace a wiring plan for entire mouse brain
by delinquentme on Saturday June 23, 2012 @10:56AM
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> The title of the paper?
We've actually got researchers on Hacker News?
Re:Scientists trace a wiring plan for entire mouse brain
by polyfractal on Saturday June 23, 2012 @01:51PM
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There's a number of scientific researchers on HN (I'm recently ex-neurosci, and I've contacted a number of other people through their profiles to chat about biology stuff).
An analogy would be trying to reconstruct the street layout of a city by taking pictures from a plane as it flew over. Each time you fly past, you might get a different angle, different weather conditions, or try a different camera. Now you have hundreds of photos, and you are hoping people who know things about cities will find useful information there, like where the best restaurants might be located.
Disclosure: I worked on the front-facing side of this project (data browser and image viewer).