BrainMapsViz

BrainMapsViz Architecture

BrainMapsViz is a suite of state-of-the-art web applications supporting the exploration of the fruit fly brain datasets. The key application underlying BrainMapsViz is NeuroNLP which uses English language queries to visualize fly brain data. A flexible GUI provides additional capability to further refine circuit visualizations. While BrainMapsViz is hosted by FFBO, the NeuroNLP applications can also be hosted locally or on the cloud. BrainMapsViz Code Repository.

NeuroNLP

NeuroNLP provides interactive visualization of the adult and larva fruit fly connectomics, synaptomics, gene expression and neurophysiology datasets. With NeuroNLP, BrainMapViz supports the in-depth visualization and exploration of 7 different adult and larva datasets obtained from various sources: (i) FlyCircuit Adult Dataset, (ii) Hemibrain Adult Dataset, (iii) L1EM Lava Dataset, (iv) in-vivo Antennal Activity Dataset, (v) Janelia Fly Medulla Dataset, (vi) FlyCircuit GAL4 Expression Dataset and (vii) Hemibrain Expression Dataset.

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1. N. H. Ukani, A. Tomkins, C.-H. Yeh, W. Bruning, A. L. Fenichel, Y. Zhou, Y.-C. Huang, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar, NeuroNLP: A Natural Language Portal for Aggregated Fruit Fly Brain Observatory Data, bioRxiv, December 2016.

2. N. H. Ukani, C.-H. Yeh, A. Tomkins, Y. Zhou, D. Florescu, C. L. Ortiz, Y.-C. Huang, C.-T. Wang, M. K. Turkcan, T. Liu, P. Richmond, C.-C. Lo, D. Coca, A.-S. Chiang, and A. A. Lazar, The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory: From Structure to Function, bioRxiv, Volume 580290, March 2019.

3. Aurel A. Lazar, Tingkai Liu, Mehmet K. Turkcan, and Yiyin Zhou, Accelerating with FlyBrainLab the Discovery of the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain in the Connectomic and Synaptomic Era, eLife, February 2021.

4. Aurel A. Lazar, Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, and Yiyin Zhou, A Programmable Ontology Encompassing the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Brain, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, April 2022.

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