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ArticleeLife2020

The natverse, a versatile toolbox for combining and analysing neuroanatomical data.

Alexander Shakeel Bates, James D Manton, Sridhar R Jagannathan, Marta Costa, Philipp Schlegel, Torsten Rohlfing, Gregory Sxe Jefferis

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

132 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Alexander Shakeel Bates *Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1195-0445
James D Manton *Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9260-3156
Sridhar R JagannathanDrosophila Connectomics Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2078-1145
Marta CostaNeurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5948-3092
Philipp SchlegelNeurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5633-1314
Torsten RohlfingSRI International, Neuroscience Program, Center for Health Sciences, Menlo Park, United States.
Gregory Sxe JefferisNeurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0587-9355

Funding

Medical Research Council MC-U105188491Medical Research Council MC_U105188491
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To analyse neuron data at scale, neuroscientists expend substantial effort reading documentation, installing dependencies and moving between analysis and visualisation environments. To facilitate this, we have developed a suite of interoperable open-source R packages called the <monospace>natverse</monospace>. The <monospace>natverse</monospace> allows users to read local and remote data, perform popular analyses including visualisation and clustering and graph-theoretic analysis of neuronal branching. Unlike most tools, the <monospace>natverse</monospace> enables comparison across many neurons of morphology and connectivity after imaging or co-registration within a common template space. The <monospace>natverse</monospace> also enables transformations between different template spaces and imaging modalities. We demonstrate tools that integrate the vast majority of

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SoftwareAnimalsConnectomeDrosophilaHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedNeuroanatomyNeuronsanalysis softwarecomputational biologyconnectomicsD. melanogastermouseneural circuitsneuroanatomyneuronal morphologyneuroscienceopen-sourcesystems biologyzebrafish

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PMID32286229
PMCPMC7242028

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