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Similar to Mouse-ALM-06, this newest challenge does not yet have a gold standard, which means the community’s traces are important and accurate traces are likely to be used as a starting point for our collaborating scientists.
Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on a big new feature for the past month or so that is nearly ready to see the light of day and of course, get ready for your input. We appreciate everyone’s patience and hope to start tackling some of the other great suggestions that have come up in the meantime once that’s out the door.
This latest neuron returns to the Primary Visual Cortex. Our partners at the Allen Institute of Brain Science have already reconstructed the gold standard and estimate it would take 4 hours of work to trace.
Also make sure to finish up work on Mouse-ALM-04 by this Thursday at noon PST. We will be sending the AIBS scientists the trace results of the last 3 finished neurons at that time in addition to posting a new neuron to work on.
This latest ALM challenge does not yet have a gold standard so accurate traces will be even more important as a starting point for the scientists.
More challenges coming tomorrow and Thursday!