New Precomputed Neuron and Expression Pattern Similarity Scores on VFB

VFB neuron-to-neuron and neuron-to-expression pattern similarity scores (NBLAST) have been expanded to include the male-CNS optic lobe and FAFB-FlyWire connectome datasets.

VFB provides precomputed NBLAST scores to assist in the discovery of 1) morphologically similar neurons within and across connectome datasets and 2) potential split-GAL4 driver lines which label neurons from connectomic datasets.

VFB NBLAST scores currently cover:

Connectome datasets:

FAFB-FlyWire (v783) FlyWire Codex

Male-CNS optic lobe (v1.0.1) neuprint optic-lobe

FlyCircuit (1.0) site

FAFB-CATMAID (all datasets on the VFB server) CATMAID server

Hemibrain (1.2.1) neuprint hemibrain

Split-GAL4 driver line images:

Images provided from FlyLight. New images are being added to VFB. FlyLight Split-GAL4

NBLAST queries can be accessed in the term info panel for individuals (neuron/split-GAL4 images) (at bottom of the example image below). The queries are only available if there are any results for that individual.

NBLAST queries

Neuron-to-neuron example match:

NBLAST queries

Neuron-to-split-GAL4 expression pattern example match:

NBLAST queries


Last modified May 29, 2025: Update NBLAST_Queries.md (85eeead)