The much awaited connectome of the male central nervous system of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster:

"Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system", Berg et al. 2025 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.680999v1

"contains 166,696 neurons spanning the brain and ventral nerve cord, fully proofread and comprehensively annotated including fruitless and doublesex expression and 11,691 cell types."

A collaboration between #HHMIJanelia, #MRCLMB and many others.

#neuroscience #connectomics #Drosophila

🌟Big new feature🌟

Rotate the viewports. You can now freely rotate the orthogonal viewports. Trace your objects in the best angle.

🚀 Advancing Retinal Connectomics!

Prof. David Berson from Brown University discussed strategies for large-scale segmentation in retinal connectomics at the vEM Data Challenges Symposium.

🎥 Watch the recorded session here: (https://youtu.be/vO8lro_wlz8?feature=shared)

🎉 Zarr-Python 3 is here! 🎉

- Full support for Zarr v3 spec
- Chunk-sharding for more efficient data storage
- Major performance boosts with async I/O & parallel compression

💻 pip install --upgrade zarr
💻 conda install --channel conda-forge zarr

Blog post: zarr.dev/blog/zarr-python-3-release/

Hi, Zarr community! 👋

🚨 Big news: Zarr-Python 3.0 is dropping next week! 🚨

If your project depends on Zarr-Python, make sure to check out the migration guide to get ready for the update.

Guide: https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/v3_migration.html

More updates soon! 🧑🏻‍💻

Happy holidays from all of us at WEBKNOSSOS! ❄️🎄

We’re grateful for your trust and collaboration in 2024. Here’s to a New Year full of discoveries and progress! 🧠