How Do We See In Color?
Cones, the photoreceptor cells in the retina responsible for color vision, recognize either red, green or blue (these primary colors correspond to …
Overview Temporarily Down
Due to a server error, the EyeWire overview is temporarily down. This means you won’t see a beautiful spinning neuron when you …
Featured EyeWirer: Jean-Francois Gariépy
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Jean-Francois …
How do we know that there are 100 billion neurons in the brain?
Where did this estimate come from? Neuroscientists Bradley Voytek of UCSF and Paul King of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC …
Facebook vs Reddit vs Google+ vs Team X
The EyeWire Games It’s coming. The first EyeWire competition: Facebook vs Reddit vs Google+ vs Team X (EyeWire Veterans). A race to trace …
Weekly EyeWire Stats
A Starburst Neuron Update and Last Week’s Top EyeWirers Happy New Year! Holiday celebrations came early at EyeWire. On December 15th, a day that …
Featured EyeWirer: Mario Marani
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. This week’s Featured EyeWirer is Mario …
Tutorial: Starburst Neurons
EyeWire Tutorial Rachel from Seung Lab navigates you through one of the trickiest parts of starburst amacrine cells: the blob. Starburst amacrine …
EyeWire Tutorial: You Can Do What A Computer Can’t
FAQ: Why are we tracing in EyeWire if the computer and AI already knows the shape of neurons. The AI is really …
EyeWirer of the Week: José Erre
A behind the scenes look at the EyeWire community. Meet the EyeWirers who are mapping the retinal connectome. Up this week is José Erre. José Erre is …
An EyeWire Meme
EyeWire is legit and we have a meme to prove it. EyeWirer Adam Brabant catapults us into internet legitimacy by creating this …
CELLebration Recap
Thanks to everyone who joined the EyeWire CELLebration Hangout on Dec 15! We had such a great time that we’ve decided to …