CAVE2 on Nature Medicine

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CAVE2 made it to the cover of Nature Medicine! In the picture, David Barnes (Monash University) is using EVL's Omegalib software to explore the beautiful brain connectome dataset by Olusola Ajilore (UIC). Read the full article here:http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n3/full/nm0314-228.html

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