Virtual Fly Brain

[1] Users can browse painted 3D image stacks of the Drosophila brain, choosing any plane of section they want and clicking on painted regions to find names' definitions, references and synonyms for the chosen region.

For each region, they can run queries to find neurons, transgene expression and phenotypes.

Virtual Fly Brain is a generic web-based application that allows browsing of 3D image stacks and querying of the underlying anatomy and expression database that is maintained by FlyBase.

Images in the viewer are delivered as a series of tiles covering only the visible area in the browser window.

The tiles are produced from a compound 3D Woolz[5][6] object representing the overall structure and individual painted domains.