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Part of the contents of this chapter (section “Analysis and Utilization of Connectome Data”) first appeared in Choe et al. (2011).

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Choe, Y. (2014). Connectome, General. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_277-1

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