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Posted by Peter H. Li, Research Scientist and Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Software Engineer, Connectomics at Google The goal of connectomics research is to map the brain’s "wiring diagram" in order to understand how the nervous system works. A primary target of recent work is the brain of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), which is a well-established research animal in biology. Eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded for fruit fly research that has led to advances in molecular biology, genetics, a...