# Ventral Nerve Cord **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Aliases:** VNC **Type:** Invertebrate nervous-system structure **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition The **ventral nerve cord** is a longitudinal neural structure in many invertebrates that contains circuits involved in sensory integration and motor control. ## Relationships - The [[wiki/FlyWire Ventral Nerve Cord Matching Challenge|FlyWire VNC Matching Challenge]] used it as the anatomical domain for male-female [[wiki/Neural Network Alignment|network alignment]]. - VNC data are related to but anatomically distinct from the adult fly brain connectome.