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A data frame containing synapse locations and metadata for 5 LHPD2a1 neurons from the BANC connectome dataset. Each row represents a single synapse with its 3D position and pre/post synaptic classification.

Usage

banc.syns

Format

A data frame with columns:

connector_id

Unique identifier for the synapse connector

pre_id

Pre-synaptic neuron ID

post_id

Post-synaptic neuron ID

prepost

Binary indicator: 0 for presynaptic (output), 1 for postsynaptic (input)

pre_svid

Pre-synaptic supervoxel ID

post_svid

Post-synaptic supervoxel ID

size

Size of the synapse

X, Y, Z

3D coordinates of the synapse in nanometers

treenode_id

Node ID on the skeleton where this synapse is located

root_id

The root ID of the neuron this synapse belongs to

Source

BANC connectome dataset (Bates et al., 2025). Data accessed via the bancr package.

References

Bates, A. S., Phelps, J. S., Kim, M., Yang, H. H., Matsliah, A., Ajabi, Z., Perlman, E., Dunne, J., Roat, J., Joyce, P., Bogovic, J. A., Jefferis, G. S. X. E., Murthy, M., Card, G., & The FlyWire Consortium. (2025). Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.07.31.667571

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(ggplot2)
library(nat.ggplot)

# Plot synapses coloured by type
ggplot(banc.syns, aes(x = X, y = Y)) +
  ggplot2::geom_point(ggplot2::aes(colour = factor(prepost)), alpha = 0.5) +
  ggplot2::scale_colour_manual(values = c("0" = "#D72000", "1" = "#132157"),
                     labels = c("Presynaptic", "Postsynaptic")) +
  ggplot2::coord_fixed()
} # }