# FlyWire Consortium **Entity class:** Organization or institution **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** International research consortium **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Relationships - [[wiki/Mala Murthy|Mala Murthy]] and [[wiki/Sebastian Seung|Sebastian Seung]] co-led the consortium from [[wiki/Princeton University|Princeton University]]. - [[wiki/Davi Bock|Davi Bock]] led the source [[wiki/Electron Microscopy|electron-microscopy]] imaging at [[wiki/Janelia Research Campus|Janelia Research Campus]]. - The [[wiki/Cambridge Drosophila Connectomics Group|Cambridge Drosophila Connectomics Group]] led companion annotation work. - Citizen scientists and researchers performed [[wiki/Connectome Proofreading|connectome proofreading]] on machine-generated segmentation. - The consortium produced the [[wiki/FlyWire|FlyWire]] adult female [[wiki/Drosophila melanogaster|Drosophila melanogaster]] connectome and the [[wiki/Codex (Connectome Data Explorer)|Codex data explorer]]. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Structured attributes - **Publication date:** October 2, 2024. - **Venue:** [[wiki/Nature|Nature]]. - **Scale reported:** 127 institutions; 287 researchers. - **Reconstruction:** 139,255 neurons; 54.5 million synapses; 8,453 cell types, including 4,581 reported as newly discovered. - **Proofreading:** 33 person-years reported; an estimated 50,000 person-years without machine learning. ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **FlyWire: Whole-Brain Completeness at Insect Scale** provides the narrative context for **FlyWire Consortium**: The FlyWire Consortium, co-led by Mala Murthy (Director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Karol and Marnie Marcin '96 Professor of Neuroscience) and Sebastian Seung (Evnin Professor in Neuroscience and Professor of… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->