Scientists at Allen Institute and CNC part of consortium that has mapped the complete connectome of the fly brain
Zulma Garcia
The synaptic connectivity of neurons is fundamental to how they function. Extracting this information for entire brains is an extremely challenging task. Today, the largest map of synaptic connectivity between neurons has been published in a special issue at Nature. 12 papers describe and analyze the first whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly produced by the FlyWire consortium. Building on an 3D image stack from the brain, the consortium collaboratively proofread an initial reconstruction...