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Overview

This resource aims to make available structured datasets on the anatomical (chemical and electrical synapses, e.g., White et al. 1986, Cook et al. 2019), functional (e.g., Randi et al. 2023) and extrasynaptic (e.g., Ripoll-Sanchez et al. 2023) connectomes of C. elegans.

This is being developed as part of the OpenWorm project and is a Work in Progress! Please get in contact if you are interested in contributing to this resource!

Example plots

Some of the generated views of the connectomics datasets covered here. Click on the images for more details.

Datasets relevant for the C. elegans Connectome Toolbox

Papers/datasets highlighted in bold have been incorporated into this package.

Papers Features Datasets
Albertson & Thomson 1976 Anatomical N/A
White et al. 1986 Anatomical White_whole
Durbin 1987 Anatomical Durbin JSH- Durbin N2A
Hall & Russell 1991 Anatomical N/A
Altun et al. 2009 Gene Expression Data
Varshney et al. 2011 Anatomical Varshney 2011
Pereira et al. 2015 Extrasynaptic Cholinergic neurons - NT_Map_herm - WormWiring - male_cholinergic - transcriptional_regulators
Bentley et al. 2016 Extrasynaptic Bentley et al. 2016 Monoaminergic - Bentley et al. 2016 Peptidergic
Cook et al. 2019 Anatomical Cook 2019 Hermaphrodite - Cook 2019 Male
Cook et al. 2020 Anatomical Cook 2020
Fenyves et al. 2020 Functional Data
Brittin et al. 2021 Anatomical Brittin et al. 2021
Taylor et al. 2021 Gene Expression Data
Yemini et al. 2021 Gene Expression Data
Witvliet et al. 2021 Developmental Witvliet1 - Witvliet2 - Witvliet3 - Witvliet4 - Witvliet5 - Witvliet6 - Witvliet7 - Witvliet8
Beets et al. 2023 Gene Expression Work in progress: data
Dag et al. 2023 Functional N/A
Atanas et al. 2023 Functional Data
Randi et al. 2023 Functional WormNeuroAtlas: anatomical - WormNeuroAtlas: functional
Ripoll-Sanchez et al. 2023 Extrasynaptic Ripoll-Sánchez 2023 (short) - Ripoll-Sánchez 2023 (mid) - Ripoll-Sánchez 2023 (long)
Yim et al. 2024 Anatomical Yim et al. 2024 - Normalized weights Yim et al. 2024 - Non-normalized
Wang et al. 2024 Neurotransmitter identity Wang et al. 2024 - hermaphrodite Wang et al. 2024 - male