The focus of this article is the one Nature article on inhibitory cells, but you can read about the full set 10 open access articles on the mouse connectome released today. It's a good choice of article to focus on, because most people don't think of inhibitory cells when they think of neural nets (though they feature prominently in some types of artificial neural network). Data from the ten papers are accessible in an interactive online resource called the MICrONS Explorer (pictured). "The result is a map with an exquisite level of detail that researchers can use to probe how structural features shape connectivity, uncover local rules of circuit organization and test long-standing hypotheses about functional motifs that are repeated throughout the cortex." For example, as often cited in these pages: "Neurons that have similar firing patterns in response to a visual stimulus tend to connect with one another."
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