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We thank Karel Svoboda for support and for critical input on the initial development of EPBscore. Anthony Holtmaat, Linda Wilbrecht for help with an initial set of experiments. Lucien West, Jonathan Bowen, Dawn Thompson, Graham Little for help with the analysis. Cher Bachar for help with Matlab implementation. SS is supported by grants from NSFC (91332122 and 31171047), and a seed grant from the Center for Brain-inspired Computation Research. This work was funded by the Medical Research Council, UK.
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Song, S., Grillo, F.W., Xi, J. et al. EPBscore: a Novel Method for Computer-Assisted Analysis of Axonal Structure and Dynamics. Neuroinform 14, 121–127 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-015-9274-5
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