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The Chung-Chuan Lo laboratory at National Tsing Hua University's Brain Research Center, Taiwan, has produced "Building a fly brain (HD)," a visualisation that assembles a fruit fly brain by placing roughly 18,000 individually reconstructed neurons into their positions one at a time — about 20% of the estimated total neurons in a fly brain. Every neuron shown was constructed from data in the [FlyCircuit database](http://www.flycircuit.tw/), accompanying Chiang et al.'s "Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Brain-wide Wiring Networks in *Drosophila* at Single-Cell Resolution" (*Current Biology*, 2011).
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Watching individual, single-cell-resolution reconstructions accumulate neuron by neuron into a complete brain gives an intuitive sense of the sheer density and diversity of cell types packed into this tiny structure — long before whole-brain electron microscopy connectomes existed, single-neuron light-level reconstruction projects like FlyCircuit were already mapping the fly brain's morphology at scale.
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The Chung-Chuan Lo laboratory at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, has released a video of a fruit fly brain simulation run with FlySim, a simulator developed in the Lo lab. The model's circuits and parameters were derived from data in the [FlyCircuit database](http://www.flycircuit.tw/) — the same single-neuron reconstruction resource behind the lab's earlier "Building a fly brain" visualisation.
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Where reconstructing a brain from FlyCircuit data shows its physical structure, this simulation goes a step further, using that structural data to parameterise a running model of brain-wide neural activity — work described in detail in the lab's associated paper in *Frontiers in Neuroinformatics* (2018), [available here](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2018.00099/full).
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