Highlights from the era of open source web-based tools

KR Anderson, JA Harris, L Ng, P Prins… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
High digital connectivity and a focus on reproducibility are contributing to an open science
revolution in neuroscience. Repositories and platforms have emerged across the whole …

Learning from connectomics on the fly

P Schlegel, M Costa, GSXE Jefferis - Current opinion in insect science, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Whole brain EM connectomics will revolutionise neuroscience.•Insects are at the
forefront of this revolution.•Map** between light and EM image data can integrate …

The natverse, a versatile toolbox for combining and analysing neuroanatomical data

AS Bates, JD Manton, SR Jagannathan, M Costa… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
To analyse neuron data at scale, neuroscientists expend substantial effort reading
documentation, installing dependencies and moving between analysis and visualisation …

An open repository for single-cell reconstructions of the brain forest

MA Akram, S Nanda, P Maraver, R Armañanzas… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
NeuroMorpho. Org was launched in 2006 to provide unhindered access to any and all
digital tracings of neuronal morphology that researchers were willing to share freely upon …

Cell morphologies in the nervous system: Glia steal the limelight

GA Ascoli - Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neurons and glia have distinct yet interactive functions but are both characterized by
branching morphology. Dendritic trees have been digitally traced for over 40 years in many …

Circuit analysis of the Drosophila brain using connectivity-based neuronal classification reveals organization of key communication pathways

K Mehta, RF Goldin, GA Ascoli - Network Neuroscience, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
We present a functionally relevant, quantitative characterization of the neural circuitry of
Drosophila melanogaster at the mesoscopic level of neuron types as classified exclusively …

Network community detection in connectomics data using graph theory

L González-Montesino… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a comprehensive descriptive analysis of a complex network derived from
individual neuronal reconstructions from the vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster) using …

Data publications correlate with citation impact

F Leitner, C Bielza, SL Hill, P Larrañaga - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Neuroscience and molecular biology have been generating large datasets over the past
years that are resha** how research is being conducted. In their wake, open data sharing …

Combining genome-scale Drosophila 3D neuroanatomical data by bridging template brains

JD Manton, AD Ostrovsky, L Goetz, M Costa, T Rohlfing… - bioRxiv, 2014 - biorxiv.org
The stereotyped structure of mammalian and invertebrate brains is a crucial determinant of
their circuit organization. Thus large scale efforts to map circuit organization using 3D image …

Indexing and mining large-scale neuron databases using maximum inner product search

Z Li, R Fang, F Shen, A Katouzian, S Zhang - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Morphological retrieval is an effective approach to explore large-scale neuronal databases,
as the morphology is correlated with neuronal types, regions, functions, etc. In this paper, we …