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Spring 2023 FlyWire Town Hall
You are cordially invited to the next FlyWire Town Hall this Thursday, March 30th at 11 am US ET. RSVP for Zoom link and to receive a reminder before the event starts at flywire.ai/townhall. The event will begin with remarks from Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung. Sven Dorkenwald will next debut figures from the upcoming…
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Make Paper Figures in FlyWire
FlyWire screenshots can be used in your Drosophila melanogaster publications. Here are some tips to easily set up your scene: Full screen 3D view Hover your cursor over the 3D part of the screen and hit SPACE. SHIFT+Click + Drag allows you to pan the camera. To remove the axis bars, use the keyboard shortcut:…
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100,000 Neurons in FlyWire!
Congratulations, the 100,000th neuron has been proofread in FlyWire! FlyWire launched in mid 2019. Since then, over 2 million edits have been made from hundreds of researchers and citizen scientists around the world. To date: Only 10% of the brain is left to proofread. All checks and annotations are impactful. Thank you for all the…
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FlyWire Town Hall
Thanks to everyone who joined the FlyWire Town Hall on Nov 10, 2022. The event included a State of the Connectome (the brain is 87% proofread and we recently surpassed 100,000 neurons!), publication plans, and new tools in development. FlyWire is nearing the end of proofreading and is migrating to a push for annotations. There…
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How to Use FlyWire
FlyWire is a community data resource containing whole brain connectome of the female adult fruit fly ( FAFB dataset). The central brain has been fully proofread by human experts and as of Oct 2022, the whole brain is 85% proofread. The community has added over 33,000 labels to the volume. The FlyWire interface: After you…
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Congratulations on 10,000 cells mapped by citizen scientists!
Bravo! Today the 10,000th neuron was completed in FlyWire!
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FlyWire Citizen Science Symposium
FlyWire’s first ever Citizen Science Symposium will take place virtually on Thurs, Sept 29 at 10 am US ET / 14:00 GMT.
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A Walk Through the FlyWire Lightbulb Menu
FlyWire’s Lightbulb Menu is home to a number of useful functions. Let’s check them out.
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The First Auditory Connectome
A new paper was published today in Current Biology that features the first auditory connectome of any species and includes the discovery of 24 new types of neurons.
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Zone 2: Complete!
We’re excited to share that FlyWire Zone 2 is complete! Congratulations! Hundreds of neurons from the first 9 optical columns have been proofread and now we’re venturing on to Zone 3.