Hacking the connectome

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.
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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 {{ ref “tools.md” tools }} to explore and analyse the published connectomes available on VFB.

Tool landscape

There are multiple tools to query the various data sources. Fortunately they play together nicely. Here is a quick overview

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 Connectomics Group based at the Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Discovery

VFB integrates images and connectomics profiles of neurons from many sources. It classifies and records their properties using a standard, queryable classification. This standardises the names of neuron types across sources, so you don’t need to worry about differences in nomenclature uses and supports queries for neurons by their classification.

Mapping

If you have a single neuron, how can you find other neurons of the same or similar type within or between data sources?

Visualisation

We show you how to visualise the data you are working with

Connectomics

How to explore published connectomic data.

NBLAST

NBLAST is a method to quantify morphological similarity. Here we show you how to use it to programatically classify neurons by morphology.


Last modified January 26, 2022: Update _index.md (56b6f27)