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Transcriptonomics in Mouse Virtual Cortex

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This lecture explores the use of transcriptonomics to study the mouse virtual cortex, focusing on classifying cortical neurons, methods overview including transgenic mice and computational analysis, identifying 49 cell types, relationships among cell types, validating cell types, and conclusions drawn from single-cell RNAseq data.

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Cell type

A cell type is a classification used to identify cells that share morphological or phenotypical features. A multicellular organism may contain cells of a number of widely differing and specialized cell types, such as muscle cells and skin cells, that differ both in appearance and function yet have identical genomic sequences. Cells may have the same genotype, but belong to different cell types due to the differential regulation of the genes they contain.

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developmental biology, cytology, psychology, physics, computer science, chemistry, medicine, statistics, and mathematical modeling to understand the fundamental and emergent properties of neurons, glia and neural circuits.

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Blue Brain Project

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