Partha P. Mitra

Compressed Genotyping (2009)

Erlich, Yaniv, Gordon, Assaf, Brand, Michael, Hannon, Gregory J., Mitra, Partha P.

Significant volumes of knowledge have been accumulated in recent years linking subtle genetic variations to a wide variety of medical disorders from Cystic Fibrosis to mental retardation....

Yeast artificial chromosomes employed for random assembly of biosynthetic pathways and production of diverse compounds in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2009)

Naesby, Michael, Nielsen, Søren VS, Nielsen, Curt AF, Green, Trine, Tange, Thomas Ø, Simón, Ernesto, ...

Abstract Background Natural products are an important source of drugs and other commercially interesting compounds, however their isolation and production is often difficult. Metabolic engineering,...

A proposal for a coordinated effort for the determination of brainwide neuroanatomical connectivity in model organisms at a mesoscopic scale (2009)

Bohland, Jason, Wu, Caizhi, Barbas, Helen, Bokil, Hemant, Bota, Mihail, Breiter, Hans C., ...

In this era of complete genomes, our knowledge of neuroanatomical circuitry remains surprisingly sparse. Such knowledge is critical, however, for both basic and clinical research into brain function....

An anatomic gene expression atlas of the adult mouse brain (2009)

Ng, Lydia, Bernard, Amy, Lau, Chris, Overly, Caroline C., Dong, Hong-Wei, Kuan, Chihchau, ...

Studying gene expression provides a powerful means of understanding structure-function relationships in the nervous system. The availability of genome-scale in situ hybridization datasets enables new...

A proposal for a coordinated effort for the determination of brainwide neuroanatomical connectivity in model organisms at a mesoscopic scale (2009)

Bohland, Jason W., Wu, Caizhi, Barbas, Helen, Bokil, Hemant, Bota, Mihail, Breiter, Hans C., ...

In this era of complete genomes, our knowledge of neuroanatomical circuitry remains surprisingly sparse. Such knowledge is however critical both for basic and clinical research into brain function....

JOURNALOF NECROPHYSIOLOGY Vol. 76. No. 6. December 1996. Printed in U.S.A. Variability of Extracellular Spike Waveforms of Cortical Neurons (2008)

Michale S. Fee, Partha P. Mitra, David Kleinfeld

1. Here we study the variability in extracellular records of action potentials. Our work is motivated, in part, by the need to construct effective algorithms to classify single-unit waveforms from...

Developmental song learning in the zebra finch (2008)

Sigal Saar, Partha P. Mitra, Sebastien Deregnaucourt, Ofer Tchernichovski, I. Introduction

Developmental learning (for example, speech acquisition in human infants) takes place early in life but its effects may last the entire lifetime of the individual. Developmental learning is difficult...

Multimedia Signal Processing for Behavioral Quantification in Neuroscience (2008)

Peter Andrews, Sigal Saar, Haibin Wang, Dan Valente, Jihène Serkhane, Ofer Tchernichovski, ...

While there have been great advances in quantification of the genotype of organisms, including full genomes for many species, the quantification of phenotype is at a comparatively primitive stage....

Bending a slab of neural tissue (2005)

Mitra, Partha P.

In comparative and developmental neuroanatomy one encounters questions regarding the deformation of neural tissue under stress. The motivation of this note is an observation (Barbas {\it et al}) that...

A framework for detection and classification of events in neural activity (2005)

Bokil, Hemant, Pesaran, Bijan, Andersen, R. A., Mitra, Partha P.

We present a method for the real time prediction of punctate events in neural activity, based on the time-frequency spectrum of the signal, applicable both to continuous processes like local field...

Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fiber communications (2000)

Mitra, Partha P., Stark, Jason B.

The exponential growth in the rate at which information can be communicated through an optical fiber is a key element in the so called information revolution. However, like all exponential growth...

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex (1998)

Kleinfeld,David, Mitra,Partha P., Helmchen,Fritjof, Denk,Winfried

Cortical blood flow at the level of individual capillaries and the coupling of neuronal activity to flow in capillaries are fundamental aspects of homeostasis in the normal and the diseased brain. To...

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex (1998)

Kleinfeld,David, Mitra,Partha P., Helmchen,Fritjof, Denk,Winfried

Cortical blood flow at the level of individual capillaries and the coupling of neuronal activity to flow in capillaries are fundamental aspects of homeostasis in the normal and the diseased brain. To...

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex (1998)

Kleinfeld, David, Mitra, Partha P., Helmchen, Fritjof, Denk, Winfried

Cortical blood flow at the level of individual capillaries and the coupling of neuronal activity to flow in capillaries are fundamental aspects of homeostasis in the normal and the diseased brain. To...

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex (1998)

Kleinfeld, David, Mitra, Partha P., Helmchen, Fritjof, Denk, Winfried

Cortical blood flow at the level of individual capillaries and the coupling of neuronal activity to flow in capillaries are fundamental aspects of homeostasis in the normal and the diseased brain. To...

Understanding Far-Infrared Absorption in the S=1 Antiferromagnetic Chain Compound NENP (1993)

Mitra, Partha P., Halperin, Bertrand I.

Infrared transmission measurements on the $S=1$ antiferromagnetic chain compound NENP in applied magnetic fields show a sharp absorption line at the field-shifted Haldane gap. This violates a...

Vocal imitation in zebra finches is inversely related to model abundance

Tchernichovski, Ofer, Lints, Thierry, Mitra, Partha P., Nottebohm, Fernando

A juvenile male zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, kept singly with its father develops a fairly complete imitation of the father’s song. The imitation is less complete when other male siblings are...

Thalamocortical dysrhythmia: A neurological and neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by magnetoencephalography

Llinás, Rodolfo R., Ribary, Urs, Jeanmonod, Daniel, Kronberg, Eugene, Mitra, Partha P.

Spontaneous magnetoencephalographic activity was recorded in awake, healthy human controls and in patients suffering from neurogenic pain, tinnitus, Parkinson's disease, or depression. Compared with...

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex

Kleinfeld, David, Mitra, Partha P., Helmchen, Fritjof, Denk, Winfried

Cortical blood flow at the level of individual capillaries and the coupling of neuronal activity to flow in capillaries are fundamental aspects of homeostasis in the normal and the diseased brain. To...

Vocal imitation in zebra finches is inversely related to model abundance

Tchernichovski, Ofer, Lints, Thierry, Mitra, Partha P., Nottebohm, Fernando

A juvenile male zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, kept singly with its father develops a fairly complete imitation of the father’s song. The imitation is less complete when other male siblings are...

Thalamocortical dysrhythmia: A neurological and neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by magnetoencephalography

Llinás, Rodolfo R., Ribary, Urs, Jeanmonod, Daniel, Kronberg, Eugene, Mitra, Partha P.

Spontaneous magnetoencephalographic activity was recorded in awake, healthy human controls and in patients suffering from neurogenic pain, tinnitus, Parkinson's disease, or depression. Compared with...

Fluctuations and stimulus-induced changes in blood flow observed in individual capillaries in layers 2 through 4 of rat neocortex

Kleinfeld, David, Mitra, Partha P., Helmchen, Fritjof, Denk, Winfried

Cortical blood flow at the level of individual capillaries and the coupling of neuronal activity to flow in capillaries are fundamental aspects of homeostasis in the normal and the diseased brain. To...

A Technique for Characterizing the Development of Rhythms in Bird Song

Saar, Sigal, Mitra, Partha P.

The developmental trajectory of nervous system dynamics shows hierarchical structure on time scales spanning ten orders of magnitude from milliseconds to years. Analyzing and characterizing this...

An Analysis of the Abstracts Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience from 2001 to 2006

Lin, John M., Bohland, Jason W., Andrews, Peter, Allen, Cara B., Mitra, Partha P.

Annual meeting abstracts published by scientific societies often contain rich arrays of information that can be computationally mined and distilled to elucidate the state and dynamics of the subject...

A Proposal for a Coordinated Effort for the Determination of Brainwide Neuroanatomical Connectivity in Model Organisms at a Mesoscopic Scale

Bohland, Jason W., Wu, Caizhi, Barbas, Helen, Bokil, Hemant, Bota, Mihail, Breiter, Hans C., ...

In this era of complete genomes, our knowledge of neuroanatomical circuitry remains surprisingly sparse. Such knowledge is critical, however, for both basic and clinical research into brain function....

The Brain Atlas Concordance Problem: Quantitative Comparison of Anatomical Parcellations

Bohland, Jason W., Bokil, Hemant, Allen, Cara B., Mitra, Partha P.

Many neuroscientific reports reference discrete macro-anatomical regions of the brain which were delineated according to a brain atlas or parcellation protocol. Currently, however, no widely accepted...