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is open source software mostly for (but found uses well beyond), and provides the means for both manual and automatic montaging and aligning overlapping 2D image tiles (with features and rigid or elastic transformation models), and then reconstructing with mostly manual means–by painting with a digital brush–the volumes of structures of interest, as well as trace the branched arbors of e.g., neurons and annotate their synapses, therefore mapping a from (volume electron microscopy).

paper at journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

Git repository at github.com/trakem2/

For 3D visualization, uses the 3D Viewer imagej.net/plugins/3d-viewer/

As software, runs as a plugin of fiji.sc/ and in fact motivated the creation of the software in the first place, to manage its many dependencies and therefore facilitate distribution to the broader community.

was founded in 2005, when terabyte-sized datasets were rare and considered large. The largest dataset that I've successfully managed with was about 16 TB. For larger datasets, see below.

The web-based open source software was devised as "google maps but for volumes". Documentation at catmaid.org and source code at github.com/catmaid/CATMAID/

Modern enables hundreds of researchers world wide to collaboratively map neuronal circuits in large datasets, e.g., 100 TB or larger, limited only by bandwidth and server-side storage. The goal: to map and analyse a whole brain .

Running client-side on and server-side on , it's a pleasure to use–if I may say so–and easy to hack on to extend its functionality with further widgets.

The first minimally viable product was produced in 2007 by Stephan Saalfeld (what we now refer to, dearly, as "Ice Age CATMAID), who demonstrated to us all that the web, and javascript, where the way to go for distributed, collaborative annotation of large datasets accessed piece-wise. See the original paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformatic

See also public instances at the virtualflybrain.org/ particularly under "tools - CATMAID - hosted EM data such as this first instar larval volume of its complete nervous system l1em.catmaid.virtualflybrain.o)

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