<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Version 5.7 of NeuroMorpho.Org was released on 30 May, 2014.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The release included 29 new data sets (1341 reconstructions), including from three new animal species (dragonfly, moth, and sheep). The database now contains 11,335 reconstructions from 144 contributing labs. More than 3.2 million reconstructions were downloaded in over 130,000 unique visits from 146 countries.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please visit the </span><a href="http://neuromorpho.org/neuroMorpho/WIN.jsp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">What’s new</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> page for details on data included in this release, including new species strains, brain regions, cell types, and experimental conditions. The </span><a href="http://neuromorpho.org/neuroMorpho/acknowl.jsp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Acknowledgements </span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">include details on contributing labs, and the </span><a href="http://neuromorpho.org/neuroMorpho/about.jsp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">About</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> page provides an updated overview of the repository content.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A new user-friendly functionality, </span><a href="http://neuromorpho.org/neuroMorpho/OntoSearch.jsp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">OntoSearch</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, was introduced in this release, enabling more powerful searches of species and strains with automated synonym translation, taxonomical relations, and keyword auto-completion. The literature coverage database was also updated to include publications through March 2014.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We are continuously grateful to all the data owners who freely share their data with the community.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The NeuroMorpho.Org team</span></p>

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</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Ruchi Parekh, Ph.D.</span></div><div><font size="1">NeuroMorpho.Org Project Lead</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:x-small">Postdoctoral Research Fellow</span><font size="1"><br>

</font></div><div><font size="1">Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, and Plasticity</font></div><div><font size="1">Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study</font></div><div><font size="1">MS2A1, George Mason University</font></div>

<div><font size="1">Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA)</font></div></div><div><font size="1">Ph - +1-703-993-4382</font></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.neuromorpho.org" target="_blank">www.neuromorpho.org</a></font></div>

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