They seem to be coming up with great work there. Unfortunately, thousands of neuroscientists who have been sharing huge funds the past decade couldn't come up w

They seem to be coming up with great work there. Unfortunately, thousands of neuroscientists who have been sharing huge funds the past decade couldn't come up with a big project like this one, it had to take private initiative to map a mouse. To me this shows how badly allocated funding sets the bar too low for most neuroscience teams. And for those who say that this is not a big deal, it actually is a very big deal. Not only for the connection map of the brain, which may or may not lead to simulating a brain (we are far from that yet), but because we can analyze the distributions of connections and their weights to infer possible functional roles.