On the claimed $800 billion dollar return on the human genome project: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/news.2011.281.html http://www.nature.com/news

On the claimed $800 billion dollar return on the human genome project: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/news.2011.281.html http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/news.2011.281.ht... (It's skeptical but vague; it looked like the rest of the top hits just parroted the press release.) Anyone have access to the brain-mapping proposal? http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273%2812%2900518-1 http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273%2812%2900518-... "The function of neural circuits is an emergent property that arises from the coordinated activity of large numbers of neurons. To capture this, we propose launching a large-scale, international public effort, the Brain Activity Map Project, aimed at reconstructing the full record of neural activity across complete neural circuits. This technological challenge could prove to be an invaluable step toward understanding fundamental and pathological brain processes."