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The TREES Toolbox—Probing the Basis of Axonal and Dendritic Branching

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Acknowledgements

We thank Karl Farrow, Yihwa Kim, Philipp Rautenberg, Martin O’Reilly and Sarah Rieubland for testing parts of the software package; Jan Gründemann for providing the Purkinje cell used in the TREES toolbox logo; Idan Segev, Erik de Schutter and Alanna Watt for helpful discussions.

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  1. Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK

    Hermann Cuntz & Michael Häusser

  2. Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany

    Hermann Cuntz, Friedrich Forstner & Alexander Borst

  3. Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Hermann Cuntz

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Cuntz, H., Forstner, F., Borst, A. et al. The TREES Toolbox—Probing the Basis of Axonal and Dendritic Branching. Neuroinform 9, 91–96 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-010-9093-7

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