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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the NCHC (National Center for High-performance Computing) and NTHU (National Tsing Hua University), Hsinchu, Taiwan, for publicly sharing their data. This work is supported by NIH R01’s NS39600 (BISTI) and NS086082 (CRCNS) from NINDS, ONR MURI 14101-0198, and Keck NAKFI to GAA.

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    Sumit Nanda, M. Mowafak Allaham, Maurizio Bergamino, Sridevi Polavaram, Rubén Armañanzas, Giorgio A. Ascoli & Ruchi Parekh

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Nanda, S., Allaham, M.M., Bergamino, M. et al. Doubling up on the Fly: NeuroMorpho.Org Meets Big Data. Neuroinform 13, 127–129 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-014-9257-y

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