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- The study focuses on using the BrainAligner program to accurately map the neural expression patterns of individual Drosophila melanogaster brains into a standardized framework, leveraging a predefined target brain as a reference.
- By utilizing a neuropil marker and a statistical average target brain from 295 samples, they achieved a high registration accuracy of 2 μm.
- The result of this process is an image pattern atlas featuring 2954 registered brains and 470 distinct expression patterns, which helps in understanding the brain's functionality and potential neural connections in adult fruit flies.
Article Abstract
Analyzing Drosophila melanogaster neural expression patterns in thousands of three-dimensional image stacks of individual brains requires registering them into a canonical framework based on a fiducial reference of neuropil morphology. Given a target brain labeled with predefined landmarks, the BrainAligner program automatically finds the corresponding landmarks in a subject brain and maps it to the coordinate system of the target brain via a deformable warp. Using a neuropil marker (the antibody nc82) as a reference of the brain morphology and a target brain that is itself a statistical average of data for 295 brains, we achieved a registration accuracy of 2 μm on average, permitting assessment of stereotypy, potential connectivity and functional mapping of the adult fruit fly brain. We used BrainAligner to generate an image pattern atlas of 2954 registered brains containing 470 different expression patterns that cover all the major compartments of the fly brain.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104101 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1602 | DOI Listing |
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