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Scientific priorities for the BRAIN Initiative

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We present a summary of the scientific deliberations and major conclusions that arose from a workshop on the BRAIN Initiative.

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We thank J. Lichtman, J. Sanes and E. Marder for their careful reading of this report.

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  1. Aravi Samuel is in the Department of Physics and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,

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  2. Herbert Levine is in the Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.,

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  3. Virginia; in the Department of Radiology, Krastan B. Blagoev is at the US National Science Foundation, Arlington, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,

    Krastan B Blagoev

  4. in the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,

    Krastan B Blagoev

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Samuel, A., Levine, H. & Blagoev, K. Scientific priorities for the BRAIN Initiative. Nat Methods 10, 713–714 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2565

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