# Volara **Entity class:** Open-source volumetric-image-processing software **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Canonical source articles:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] · [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] ## Definition **Volara** is open-source infrastructure for applying block-wise operations to arbitrarily large multidimensional microscopy volumes. It supports large-volume array and graph processing, model inference, fragment extraction, affinity agglomeration, relabeling, registration shifts, task resumption, and local or clustered compute contexts. Within [[wiki/PRISM (E11 Bio)|PRISM]], Volara belongs to the computational substrate that turns registered image and model outputs into tractable large-volume reconstruction workflows. It is a reusable software component, not the protein-barcoding method itself. ## Relationships - **Authors:** [[wiki/William Patton|William Patton]] and [[wiki/Arlo Sheridan|Arlo Sheridan]]. - **Used in:** [[wiki/PRISM (E11 Bio)|PRISM (E11 Bio)]] training and reconstruction infrastructure. - **Works with:** volumetric arrays, graph segmentation, affinity prediction, [[wiki/Local Shape Descriptors|Local Shape Descriptors]], and [[wiki/Neuroglancer|Neuroglancer]]. - **Collection route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. ## Sources - [GitHub — e11bio/volara](https://github.com/e11bio/volara) - [E11 Bio — PRISM code and data resources](https://www.e11.bio/blog/prism)