The whole world is gushing over work released this week in Nature of the complete fruit fly connectome (that is, the complete set of neurons and connections in the fruit fly brain). There's a set of nione papers overall along with some websites, data, and applications. The FlyWire project built a consortium comprising researchers spread over 127 institutions, supported with artificial intelligence and 10,000 volunteers verifying data in an online game. In the 140,000 neuron connectome they identified 8,453 annotated cell types (4,581 of which were new) connected with some 50 million synapses. View the Connectome Data Explorer. See also: Colossal.
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