The human connectome: just another 'ome?

After the Human Genome Project there came proteomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes. There was even a Human Microbiome Project launched last year by the US National Institutes of Health. Are neuroscientists just jumping on the 'ome bandwagon, or is there truly a benefit to deciphering and detailing the human connectome? Ruth Williams reports.

We are still a long way from understanding how the human brain is wired, yet this might change with recent advances in imaging technology. Diffusion-based M ...

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a Division of Angiology and Haemostasis, Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland

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