Neuroglancer is a WebGL-based viewer for volumetric data. It is capable of displaying arbitrary (non axis-aligned) cross-sectional views of volumetric data, as well as 3-D meshes and line-segment based models (skeletons).

This is not an official Google product.

Examples

  • A live demo is hosted at https://neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com. (The prior link opens the viewer without any preloaded dataset.) Use the viewer links below to open the viewer preloaded with an example dataset.
  • The four-pane view consists of three orthogonal cross-sectional views as well as a 3-D view (with independent orientation) that displays 3-D models (if available) for the selected objects. All four views maintain the same center position. The orientation of the three cross-sectional views can also be adjusted, although they maintain a fixed orientation relative to each other. (Try holding the shift key and either dragging with the left mouse button or pressing an arrow key.)
  • FlyEM Hemibrain (8x8x8 cubic nanometer resolution). Open viewer
  • FAFB-FFN1 Full Adult Fly Brain Automated Segmentation (4x4x40 cubic nanometer resolution). Open viewer
  • Kasthuri et al., 2014. Mouse somatosensory cortex (6x6x30 cubic nanometer resolution). Open viewer.
  • This dataset was copied from https://neurodata.io/data/kasthuri15/ and is made available under the Open Data Common Attribution License. Paper: Kasthuri, Narayanan, et al. "Saturated reconstruction of a volume of neocortex." Cell 162.3 (2015): 648-661.
  • Janelia FlyEM FIB-25. 7-column Drosophila medulla (8x8x8 cubic nanometer resolution). Open viewer.
  • This dataset was copied from https://www.janelia.org/project-team/flyem/data-and-software-release, and is made available under the Open Data Common Attribution License. Paper: Takemura, Shin-ya et al. "Synaptic Circuits and Their Variations within Different Columns in the Visual System of Drosophila." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112.44 (2015): 13711-13716.