Pyr is a hub for all things brain mapping! Here you’ll find the latest information on our current open-sourced projects for collaborative neuroscience.
Our current project, named “Minnie,” is a dataset taken from a region of mouse cortex. Our targets for mapping are excitatory cells called pyramidal neurons – known for the pyramidal shape of their cell bodies!
Previous projects include:
- FlyWire – The first of it’s kind, this project mapped a fruit fly brain! This was the first complex animal brain to be mapped in its entirety.
- Flagship paper: Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Dorkenwald et. al. 2023
- Eyewire – The original citizen science brain mapping game! This project is in progress of mapping a mouse retina, and a zebrafish hindbrain. It’s still running, so if you can’t get enough brain mapping, feel free to join in on the fun!
- Mouse retina paper: Space–time wiring specificity supports direction selectivity in the retina. Kim et. al. 2014
- Zebrafish preprint paper: Predicting modular functions and neural coding of behavior from a synaptic wiring diagram. Vishwanathan et. al. 2022
Future Projects:
Following the success of Eyewire, we hope to bring you another crowdsourced neuron mapping game in the near future! Stay tuned!