Automatic detection of synaptic partners in a whole-brain Drosophila electron microscopy data set.

Buhmann, Julia; Sheridan, Arlo; Malin-Mayor, Caroline; Schlegel, Philipp; Gerhard, Stephan; Kazimiers, Tom; Krause, Renate; Nguyen, Tri M et al. · Nat Methods · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We develop an automatic method for synaptic partner identification in insect brains and use it to predict synaptic partners in a whole-brain electron microscopy dataset of the fruit fly. The predictions can be used to infer a connectivity graph with high accuracy, thus allowing fast identification of neural pathways. To facilitate circuit reconstruction using our results, we develop CIRCUITMAP, a user interface add-on for the circuit annotation tool CATMAID.

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