To understand the brain, the thousands of synaptic connections made by each of billions of neurons should be mapped and related to neuronal function. First steps towards this formidable goal are now reported. See Articles p.177 & p.183
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Seung, H. Towards functional connectomics. Nature 471, 171–172 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471170a
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