Systems Neuroscientist here. I've only skimmed this paper so far, but it seems as though this dataset is limited to studying cytoarchitecture (what types of ne

Systems Neuroscientist here. I've only skimmed this paper so far, but it seems as though this dataset is limited to studying cytoarchitecture (what types of neurons are in what regions of the brain) as well as some tracing of major fiber pathways. This does not represent the successful conclusion to connectomics efforts to map every neuron and every connection in the brain (see Sebastian Seung's work and the eyewire project [1]). It's hard to tell exactly how useful this dataset and model are. There are other exciting developments that map not just neuroanatomical structure but also the distribution of proteins and gene expression [2],[3] [1] http://eyewire.org/ http://eyewire.org/ [2] http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/april/clarity.html http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/april/clarity.html [3] http://smithlab.stanford.edu/Smithlab/Array_Tomography.html http://smithlab.stanford.edu/Smithlab/Array_Tomography.html