BrainGlobe
@brainglobe
We build open source computational neuroanatomy software that works across species. Posts by @adamltyson.com
A Tawny Dragon brain atlas has been added to BrainGlobe! This lizard has shown great promise for neuroevolutionary research and we hope inclusion of the atlas within BrainGlobe will help researchers understand its brain structure. Read more in the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/tawny-d...
BrainGlobe Atlas API V3 is out! After 6 years, this is the first major change in how BrainGlobe works. Each atlas component is fetched independently, meaning all BrainGlobe tools will work faster, and more reliably. Read more at: brainglobe.info/blog/braingl...
All BrainGlobe atlases now have Neuroglancer links so that you can explore atlases in the browser without needing to download them first! All links here: brainglobe.info/documentatio... Here you can view our Eurasian Blackcap atlas: neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com#!https://bra...
Do you use the BrainGlobe Atlas API directly in your work? Have you built a tool on top of BrainGlobe? We will soon release V3 of the API, which changes how brain atlas data is stored and accessed. A release candidate is available for testing, please see our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/atlas-a...
Nice Claude skill to create basic neuroanatomical visualisations with BrainGlobe & blender: github.com/SamedVossber... The single prompt "Use the allen mouse brain atlas to create an animation to show primary visual cortex and primary motor cortex" gives:
As part of this effort, we've just released three new atlases from v2 of the Allen mouse CCF - the brain atlas, fiber tract atlas and developmental brain atlas. Most pipelines have moved to CCFv3, but adding v2 allows atlas comparison and reproducing old analyses. brainglobe.info/blog/ccfv2-a...
BrainGlobe has a new roadmap! Somewhat overdue, the March 2026 roadmap summarises our recent progress, and our priorities for the coming year. Read more: brainglobe.info/community/ro...
The CArea mouse brain atlas has been added to BrainGlobe! This atlas has regions which are automatically clustered based on three dimensional maps of gene expression. Read more in the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/carea-a...
New blogpost outlining our work with @athenaakrami.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social to build light-microscopy based atlases of the rat brain. brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem...
A new MRI mouse brain atlas has been added to BrainGlobe! This atlas from Dorr et al. (2008) is an average of 40 T2-weighted MR images at 32um resolution. Thanks to Saarah Hussain for adding this atlas. More details: brainglobe.info/blog/dorr-mo... Original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
BrainGlobe branches out! New blog outlining our collaborative work with @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social to build anatomical atlases for developmental mechanobiology. brainglobe.info/blog/drosoph...
DeMBA (Developmental Mouse Brain Atlas) has now been added to BrainGlobe! This includes every developmental stage from P4 to P56. Each of these 53 atlases includes MRI, LSFM and STPT templates. For more details, see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/DeMBA Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Version 2 of the "Enhanced and Unified Mouse Brain Atlas" has now been added to BrainGlobe. This popular atlas has been updated with corrected annotations and an isotropic 20um reference volume. Thanks to Pavel Vychyk for adding this atlas! brainglobe.info/blog/kim-iso...
The brain atlas of the bumblebee Bombus impatiens created by the @kocherlab.bsky.social is now part of BrainGlobe! This is our first insect brain atlas. Thanks to Scott Wolf for adding it! More details: brainglobe.info/blog/bee-atl... Original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the "CCFv3 augmented mouse atlas"! This atlas is an extended version of the CCFv3, designed to cover the rostral and caudal tips of the mouse brain and includes Nissl templates. More details: brainglobe.info/blog/CCFv3BB... Original paper: doi.org/10.1162/imag...
New version of brainglobe-heatmap (v0.6.0) released, with automated region annotations. github.com/brainglobe/b...
New version of brainglobe-workflows released (v1.4.1)! Includes a fix for a brainmapper bug in which the analysis results for users with 3D tiffs was incorrect. Full documentation: brainglobe.info/documentatio...
BrainGlobe has a new atlas, for the dwarf cuttlefish (Sepia bandensis). Thanks to UCL student Jung Woo Kim for packaging this atlas! For more details about this (and the rest of BrainGlobe), please see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/cuttlef... Original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Nice package to load BrainGlobe atlases into Blender - "BlenderBrain". github.com/ArtemKirsano...
BrainGlobe has three new mouse brain atlases including: - Multimodal (LSFM & MRI) developmental atlas from Yongsoo Kim's lab - Multimodal (LSFM & MRI) adult atlas from Gubra - High-resolution Australian mouse brain atlas (MRI) See the blog for more details: brainglobe.info/blog/mouse-a...
BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the first non-human primate, the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). For more details about this (and the rest of BrainGlobe), please see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/mouse-l...
BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the prairie vole! For more details see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/prairie... Original paper: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)! For more details see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/axolotl... Original paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
BrainGlobe now includes an atlas with barrel column annotations from Bolaños-Puchet & Teska et al. Full details on the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/barrel-... Thanks to Axel Bisi for bringing this to BrainGlobe! Original paper: doi.org/10.1162/imag...
We've just released the "brainmapper" widget allowing analysis of cellular distributions in whole-brain microscopy images entirely within napari. Full details available on the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/brainma...
We've added a new atlas - the blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. More details on the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/cavefis...
New version of brainrender released, with a new Line Actor (thanks to Paul Brodersen!). To update: pip install brainrender -U github.com/brainglobe/b...
Processing neuroanatomy data in napari? You may find brainrender-napari (github.com/brainglobe/b...) useful. We're slowly porting the original brainrender to napari to provide a consistent neuroanatomy data analysis and visualisation environment.
Interested in making high-quality 2D & 3D neuroanatomical visualisations across multiple species? New versions of brainrender (github.com/brainglobe/b...) and brainglobe-heatmap (github.com/brainglobe/b...) have been released.