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ReviewNeuroinformatics2007

Successes and rewards in sharing digital reconstructions of neuronal morphology.

Giorgio A Ascoli

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Review in Neuroinformatics, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Highlights from the Era of Open Source Web-Based Tools.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  3. Turning the Tide of Data Sharing.Neuroinformatics · 2019
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  6. Quantitative investigations of axonal and dendritic arbors: development, structure, function, and pathology.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2015
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Giorgio A AscoliKrasnow Inst. for Advanced Study and Neuroscience Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. ascoli@gmu.edu

Funding

Generation and Description of Neuronal Morphology and ConnectivityR01NS039600 · NINDS · GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY · PI ASCOLI, GIORGIO A · 1999 to 2024
$6.9M
CRCNS: Input/Output Relationship in CA3 Pyramidal CellsR01AG025633 · NIA · GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY · PI ASCOLI, GIORGIO A · 2004 to 2008
$1.5M
NIA NIH HHS AG025633NIDA NIH HHS DA-HHSN271200577531CNINDS NIH HHS NS39600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The computer-assisted three-dimensional reconstruction of neuronal morphology is becoming an increasingly popular technique to quantify the arborization patterns of dendrites and axons. The resulting digital files are suitable for comprehensive morphometric analyses as well as for building anatomically realistic compartmental models of membrane biophysics and neuronal electrophysiology. The digital tracings acquired in a lab for a specific purpose can be often re-used by a different research group to address a completely unrelated scientific question, if the original investigators are willing to share the data. Since reconstructing neuronal morphology is a labor-intensive process, data sharing and re-analysis is particularly advantageous for the neuroscience and biomedical communities. Here we present numerous cases of "success stories" in which digital reconstructions of neuronal morphology were shared and re-used, leading to additional, independent discoveries and publications, and thus amplifying the impact of the "source" study for which the data set was first collected. In particular, we overview four main applications of this kind of data: comparative morphometric analyses, statistical estimation of potential synaptic connectivity, morphologically accurate electrophysiological simulations, and computational models of neuronal shape and development.

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Cooperative BehaviorNeuronsRewardAnimalsDatabases, FactualHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedNeuroanatomy

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