Hacking the connectome workshop materials
Tutorials from the Virtual Fly Brain “Hacking the connectome” workshop that was run in collaboration with the Drosophila Connectomics Group based at the Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
Superseded by the workshop
This page is kept for reference from the 2021 Hacking the connectome workshop. The current material is the seven learning sessions on the VFB Self-led Learning Sessions — the same ground against live VFB data, worked through in Python, R, an MCP-capable assistant, VFB Chat and the 3D browser.
Below you can watch the recorded introduction session of our workshop and follow along with the workshop notebooks we work through to show examples of how you can use the available tools to explore and analyse the published connectomes available on VFB.
Introduction to connectomic data and tools
Introduction session from the Virtual Fly Brain "Hacking the connectome" workshop that was run in collaboration with the Drosophila …
OpenTool landscape
There are multiple tools to query the various data sources. Fortunately they play together nicely. Here is a quick overview
OpenDiscovery
VFB integrates images and connectomics profiles of neurons from many sources. It classifies and records their properties using a standard, …
OpenMapping
If you have a single neuron, how can you find other neurons of the same or similar type within or between data sources?
OpenVisualisation
We show you how to visualise the data you are working with
OpenConnectomics
How to explore published connectomic data.
OpenNBLAST
NBLAST is a method to quantify morphological similarity. Here we show you how to use it to programatically classify neurons by morphology.
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