get_cave_stack_info

This function gets the official metadata information for a specific CAVE datastack directly from the publisher of the datastack.

Arguments:

• datastack (string, mandatory)
  • the name of the CAVE datastack you want metadata for (e.g. "brain_and_nerve_cord")

Returns:

• stack_info (dictionary)
  • a dictionary containing the official published metadata info for the requested datastack

Example

The code below gets the metadata for the brain_and_nerve_cord datastack used in many of the tracertools examples.

INPUT:

import tracertools as tt

stack_info = tt.get_cave_stack_info(
    datastack = "brain_and_nerve_cord"
)

print(stack_info)

OUTPUT:

{
    'aligned_volume': {
        'description': '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. Visit https://banc.community for more information.',
        'display_name': 'BANC',
        'id': 9,
        'image_source': 'precomputed://gs://seunglab_lee_fly_cns_001_alignment/aligned/v0',
        'name': 'brain_and_nerve_cord'
    },
    'analysis_database': None,
    'cell_identification_table': 'cell_info',
    'description': None,
    'local_server': 'https://cave.fanc-fly.com',
    'proofreading_review_table': None,
    'proofreading_status_table': 'backbone_proofread',
    'segmentation_source': 'graphene://https://cave.fanc-fly.com/segmentation/table/wclee_fly_cns_001',
    'skeleton_source': 'precomputed://https://cave.fanc-fly.com/skeletoncache/api/v1/brain_and_nerve_cord/precomputed/skeleton',
    'soma_table': None,
    'synapse_table': 'synapses_v2',
    'viewer_resolution_x': 4.0,
    'viewer_resolution_y': 4.0,
    'viewer_resolution_z': 45.0,
    'viewer_site': 'https://spelunker.cave-explorer.org/'
}

Note

This output was generated on 2026/09/30 and may have been updated by the time you run this code in the future.