= Drosophila connectome
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= Fruit fly connectome
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2023 full connectome published on <Science (journal)> by Marta Zlatic's lab at the <MRC>:
* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330
* https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/with-this-brain-map-we-are-one-step-closer-to-total-fruit-fly-simulation/
The hard part then is how to make any predictions from it:
* 2024 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02935-z Fly-brain connectome helps to make predictions about neural activity. Summary of "Connectome-constrained networks predict neural activity across the fly visual system" by J. K. Lappalainen et. al.
2024: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly's neurons in exquisite detail
As of 2022, it had been almost fully decoded by <post mortem connectome extraction with microtome>!!! 135k <neurons>.
* 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/science/drosophila-fly-brain-connectome.html Why Scientists Have Spent Years Mapping This Creature’s Brain by <New York Times>
That article mentions the humongous paper https://elifesciences.org/articles/66039 https://elifesciences.org/articles/66039 "A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection" by a group from <Janelia Research Campus>. THe paper is so large that it makes <eLife> hang.
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