# FlyWire Ventral Nerve Cord Matching Challenge **Entity class:** Program or project **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Aliases:** FlyWire VNC Matching Challenge **Type:** Research challenge **Date:** March 2025 **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Relationships - [[wiki/Daniel Lee|Daniel Lee]] and [[wiki/Lawrence Saul|Lawrence Saul]] are identified as winners. - Their affiliation is the [[wiki/Center for Computational Mathematics|Center for Computational Mathematics]] at the [[wiki/Flatiron Institute|Flatiron Institute]]. - The challenge concerned male-female [[wiki/Neural Network Alignment|neural-network alignment]] in the [[wiki/Ventral Nerve Cord|ventral nerve cord]]. <!-- 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 --> ## 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 Ventral Nerve Cord Matching Challenge**: Tools developed include Codex (Connectome Data Explorer)—an open-access web interface enabling anyone with internet access to navigate neurons and synaptic pathways without downloading massive datasets, already used by over… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->