Data release checklist

Motivation

Our goal is to have a page on this wiki, listed in Home#Publications-and-public-data-releases, for each manuscript that publishes new neurons reconstructed in FANC. Authors are welcome to include a link to their paper's page on this wiki if they would like to direct readers to a location where neuron reconstructions from their paper can be accessed. To faciliate this, we copy published neurons' meshes to a public google bucket, gs://lee-lab_female-adult-nerve-cord/meshes, where anyone can access them.

Logistics

To enable the FANC community organizers to help you with your data release, please follow the steps here at least a week before you post your preprint / submit your manuscript to a journal.

• Decide on a short term that can be used to annotate all the cells that are discussed/analyzed in your paper. The terms for all FANC papers up to this point have been {first author} {potential co-first author(s)} et al. {year} (see list over here) and we suggest you follow this pattern unless you have a preference to the contrary. Tell Jasper the term you decide on and he'll add it to the list.
  • We will update this annotation later if the first authors or the year changes.
  • This annotation will go on all the cells discussed/analyzed in your paper, even if your paper isn't the first FANC paper to discuss/analyze them. It's perfectly fine (and intended) for any given neuron to have multiple publication annotations.
• Use @neuron-information-bot in the FANC Community slack to apply this annotation on all your neurons. (If you haven't used the bot before, the basic instructions are that you'll send messages that look like 7654321234567! Whoever et al. 2024 to the bot and it will record that annotation in the CAVE table neuron_information.)
• Tell the community organizers when you've put your paper's annotation on the complete set of FANC cells that are discussed/analyzed in your paper. They will then export your cells' reconstructions to gs://lee-lab_female-adult-nerve-cord/meshes, both the original version and a version aligned to the female VNC template.
• You may then make neuroglancer links pointing to the public versions of the data.
  • If you want to allow readers to view your neurons in the native FANC-space, load them into this link
  • If you want to allow readers to view your neurons aligned to the female VNC template, load them into this link
• Please then give the community organizers the link(s) to your paper's neurons so that those links can be added to your paper's page on this wiki