Hierarchical Modular Structure of the Drosophila Connectome
Alexander Kunin, Xaq Pitkow, Krešimir Josić, Jiahao Guo, Kevin Bassler · COSYNE 2023
The structure of neural circuitry plays a crucial role in brain function. Previous studies of brain organization generally had to trade off between coarse descriptions at a large scale and fine descriptions on a small scale. Researchers have now reconstructed tens to hundreds of thousands of neurons at synaptic resolution, enabling investigations into the interplay between global, modular organization, and cell type-specific wiring. Analyzing data of this scale, however, presents unique challenges. To address this problem we applied novel community detection methods to analyze the synapse-leve
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