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Software for fast and accurate alignment of brain images is used to generate a partial brain atlas for Drosophila melanogaster and should enable circuit mapping.

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Figure 1: Schematic showing that images of various parts of the fruit fly brain can be aligned with BrainAligner software to generate a neural map.

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  1. Wolf Huetteroth and Scott Waddell are in the Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Huetteroth, W., Waddell, S. Bringing fly brains in line. Nat Methods 8, 461–463 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1615

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