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🏦 The BANC (said "the bank") 🏦 is the Brain And Nerve Cord, a GridTape transmission electron microscopy dataset of a female adult Drosophila melanogaster's entire central nervous system.

• This dataset was generated by Jasper Phelps and Minsu Kim in Wei-Chung Lee's lab at Harvard Medical School.
• 3D segmentation to extract the shapes of neurons and other objects in the dataset was performed by Zetta AI.
• The community proofreading and annotation effort is coordinated by FlyWire.

A manuscript describing the BANC is currently in preparation, aiming to be finished by the end of 2024. During this phase, we are happily sharing the unpublished, work-in-progress dataset with all interested researchers, although use is currently subject to a publication embargo as we prepare our manuscript. See the links on this page to FlyWire for more information.

Table of contents

General information about the dataset

• Sample choice and tissue preparation
• The EM image dataset
• Automated segmentation

Connectome proofreading and annotation

• Proofreading training materials
• Neuroglancer states for proofreading
• Annotations (cell types, etc.)
• banc‐bot user manual
• Join the FlyWire community to contribute yourself