Connectome Archives

How are Points Calculated in EyeWire?

EyeWirer @nkem created this post in the forums explaining how EyeWire points work to new players. In light of the recent VSauce traffic, we …

Results are in and records are broken! Congrats to KETTA for winning the Ketta Competition on EyeWire! 2nd place goes to @jamiexq and …

Now that the first EyeWire dataset is complete, let’s switch up the game. The next stage of EyeWire involves identifying mystery cells …

President Barack Obama announced today at the White House a BRAIN Initiative, “a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of …

EyeWire is a game to map the brain. Anyone can play and you need no scientific background. Learn more or play now. …

EyeWire will be presented at Biovision, the World Life Sciences Forum in Lyon, France. The event will be livestreamed from biovision.org — …

A new neuron is up in EyeWire: J Cell #7! This is the last opportunity to map J Cells in this dataset! …

The Starburst Challenge is back — in private beta. Last week EyeWire launched the Starburst Challenge. It lasted less than 48 hours …

EyeWirers complete a new neuron! J Cell #5 is finished! Check out its beautiful glory in 3D by logging into EyeWire and …

Imagine zooming through an entire connectome as you see this beautiful set of synapses that have been rendered translucent so you can …

Yesterday we debuted the Starburst Challenge, Level 2 in EyeWire. 34 players have beat the challenge and unlocked the Starburst Challenge and …

In just over three months, EyeWire, a game to map the brain (specifically, the connectome), has grown to over 50,000 players from …