PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Adam H. Marblestone AU - Evan R. Daugharthy AU - Reza Kalhor AU - Ian Peikon AU - Justus Kebschull AU - Seth L. Shipman AU - Yuriy Mishchenko AU - David A. Dalrymple AU - Bradley M. Zamft AU - Konrad P. Kording AU - Edward S. Boyden AU - Anthony M. Zador AU - George M. Church TI - Conneconomics: The Economics of Large-Scale Neural Connectomics AID - 10.1101/001214 DP - 2013 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 001214 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2013/12/10/001214.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2013/12/10/001214.full AB - We analyze the scaling and cost-performance characteristics of current and projected connectomics approaches, with reference to the potential implications of recent advances in diverse contributing fields. This analysis suggests potential cost-effective strategies for dense connectivity mapping at the scale of whole mammalian brains.