Glossary of annotation terms.
Annotation field names are bolded and shown against a white background whilst the associated field values are shown against a grey background. Note that compound field names are presented in the snake_case format (e.g., entry_nerve) used in Clio Neuroglancer whereas Neuprint employs the camelCase format (e.g., entryNerve).
Table 1 - video 1. Using Clio Neuroglancer with the plain option to retrieve neurons by annotation (2:37). https://youtu.be/EmOB8WvDHss Navigate to https://clio.janelia.org/ and select workspace “annotate” and the desired segmentation volume. On the right side click the “BODIES” tab to bring up the annotation fields. Using the plain option, type your query enclosed in curly brackets, with quotation marks around the field name, a colon, and quotations around the desired field value. Then click on the magnifying glass icon to retrieve all bodies matching your criteria. You can use the Fields checklist to hide or display particular fields for your neurons of interest. Now you can filter the list by typing into the fields. For example, let’s compare the FeCO claw neurons in the right mesothoracic entry nerve. Pressing the flashlight icon will display all listed neurons in random colours. I’ll remove the tissue layer and add the neuropil layer so that it’s easier to see where the neurons are positioned within the leg neuropil. To compare the two different types of FeCO claw neurons, we could select a few neurons from each type and assign them to a specific colour, like this. Let’s right-click on the segmentation layer, go to the Seg. section, and copy-paste the respective bodyids into the Neuroglancer window. This is so that they won’t be lost when we select more neurons to display. Now clear the first selection, select neurons from the other type, and assign these to a different colour. We can then click on the saved neurons to view both of them at the same time. Note that when using this method to query for a numerical field value - for example, the bodyid, group, serial, or subcluster fields - you need to enclose the number in square brackets instead of in quotation marks, like this. If we now remove the previous filters, we can view all examples of a given serial set.
Table 1 - video 2. Using Clio Neuroglancer with the structured option to retrieve neurons by annotation (2:41). https://youtu.be/jObOKhAD7LQ Navigate to https://clio.janelia.org/ and select workspace “annotate” and the desired segmentation volume. On the right side click the “BODIES” tab and select the structured option. Type your desired annotation fields and values into the query boxes, clicking the “+” symbol to add them - for example, hemilineage “14A” and serial_motif “independent leg”. Once you’ve added your criteria, click on the magnifying glass icon to retrieve the corresponding bodies. To customise the displayed information, use the Fields checklist to select fields of interest. You can also add filters for specific characteristics. For example, to visualise neurons from a specific serial set, such as “10424” (Figure 11A), type the number into the serial field and click the flashlight icon. Now right-click on the segmentation layer, go to the Seg. section, and copy-paste the respective bodyids into the Neuroglancer window. Then you can colour the neurons as you like. For example, filter for soma_neuromere “T1”, click to select those bodyids, set their colour to green and highlight the selected neurons. You can repeat the same process for the other thoracic neuromeres, colouring T2 neurons in blue and T3 neurons in magenta. Then click on the saved list to visualise all of the neurons together. We recommend removing the “all-tissue” layer and selecting the “neuropil” layer to get a clearer view of the neuropils innervated by your neurons. Note that to search for a specific serial set directly, you could instead use the structured option by simply typing serial and the number into the query boxes.