So really, really tiny on the scale of individual synapses between individual neurons or even smaller like the individual synaptic vesicles containing little packets of neurotransmitter they're going to get it released to allow one neuron to communicate to the next. So very, very fine, but the notion here is that, you're doing this section after section at very fine scale. So in theory what you have is a complete description of a chunk of nervous tissue that is so complete that if you took enough time to identify where the boundaries of all the cells are, you could come up with a complete description of the synaptic wiring of that chunk of nervous tissue because you have a complete description of where all the cells are and where all the synapses between where all the cells are. So now you essentially have a wiring diagram of this complicated piece of tissue. So the omics part is the exhaustiveness of it rather than looking at a couple of synapses that are interesting to you from two different cell types. You're looking at all the synapses of all of the cell types which of course is this massive avalanche of data, right? - So in genetics, you have genetics and then you have genomics which is the idea of getting the whole genome. - All of it. - And we don't really have an analogous word for genetics, but it would be connectivity and [indistinct]. - Right. [indistinct] - Right, so it's wanting it all and of course it's crazy ambitious, but that's where it gets fun. Really it's a use of electron microscopy, a very high resolution microscopic imaging system
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