About the Authors

Nicholas Cain

Affiliation Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ramakrishnan Iyer

Affiliation Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christof Koch

Affiliation Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stefan Mihalas

stefanm@alleninstitute.org

Affiliation Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC RI SM. Performed the experiments: NC. Analyzed the data: NC RI SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC RI. Wrote the paper: NC RI CK SM. Designed the software used in analysis: NC RI.