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NATURE METHODS
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 119-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-021-01330-0
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative [RF1 MH117815]
- HHMI Faculty Scholar award
- NIH R35 Research Program Award
- NIH [RF1MH123400, U01MH117072, U01MH114824]
- Mathers Foundation
- Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity via Department of Interior/Interior Business Center [D16PC0005]
- Amazon
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FlyWire is an online community and platform for proofreading connectome data of the Drosophila brain, using interactive segmentation technology and collaborative editing to distribute proofreading work globally. By utilizing an open community, it accelerates proofreading by recruiting more participants and promotes scientific discovery through information sharing.
FlyWire is an online community and a platform for proofreading electron microscopy-based connectome data of the Drosophila brain. Due to advances in automated image acquisition and analysis, whole-brain connectomes with 100,000 or more neurons are on the horizon. Proofreading of whole-brain automated reconstructions will require many person-years of effort, due to the huge volumes of data involved. Here we present FlyWire, an online community for proofreading neural circuits in a Drosophila melanogaster brain and explain how its computational and social structures are organized to scale up to whole-brain connectomics. Browser-based three-dimensional interactive segmentation by collaborative editing of a spatially chunked supervoxel graph makes it possible to distribute proofreading to individuals located virtually anywhere in the world. Information in the edit history is programmatically accessible for a variety of uses such as estimating proofreading accuracy or building incentive systems. An open community accelerates proofreading by recruiting more participants and accelerates scientific discovery by requiring information sharing. We demonstrate how FlyWire enables circuit analysis by reconstructing and analyzing the connectome of mechanosensory neurons.
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