ZAPBench - Bryant McGill

# ZAPBench **Domain:** Whole-Brain Activity Modeling / Functional Connectomics **Doc Type:** Dataset and Benchmark Node **Maturity:** Published activity benchmark; aligned connectome remains a separate completion claim **Primary Source:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition **ZAPBench**, the Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark, is a whole-brain neural-activity dataset and predictive-model benchmark based on larval zebrafish responding to controlled virtual environments. Its scale is approximately the full neuronal population of the small vertebrate brain. ## Benchmark role Models receive recent activity and are evaluated on their ability to predict held-out future neural activity. The design allows activity-only models to be compared with models that incorporate structural connectivity when the aligned connectome is available, making the value of wiring information empirically testable. ## Comparative position [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] offers dense structure-function registration in a mammalian cortical volume; ZAPBench pursues whole-brain functional coverage in a much smaller vertebrate. [[wiki/FlyWire|FlyWire]] supplies whole-brain structural completeness in an insect. These are complementary scale choices, not a single linear ranking. ## Evidentiary boundary Whole-brain recording does not equal perfect measurement, and an activity benchmark is not the same thing as a completed synapse-resolution connectome. Predicting neural dynamics supports model comparison without proving subjective experience, behavioral equivalence, or continuity. ## Relationships **Related cluster nodes:** [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]] · [[wiki/Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure|Connectome Reconstruction Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] · [[wiki/FlyWire|FlyWire]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Neurotech cluster route **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Source articles:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]  ### Master relationship graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 356 — `developed_by` → [[wiki/Google Research|Google Research]] and [[wiki/Janelia Research Campus|Janelia Research Campus]] and [[wiki/Harvard University|Harvard University]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `ZAPBENCH`. Larval zebrafish whole-brain activity + nanoscale structure dataset. - **Edge 357 — `key_person` → [[wiki/Michał Januszewski|Michał Januszewski]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `ZAPBENCH`. Google Research connectomics. #### Epistemic boundary `VERIFIED`, `VERIFIED_SECONDARY`, `CORPUS`, `STRONG_TECHNICAL_LINEAGE`, `STRONG_TECHNICAL_CONVERGENCE`, `ANALYTIC`, and `UNRESOLVED` are retained as distinct relation states. An edge does not imply ownership, control, funding, licensing, technology transfer, or organizational identity unless its predicate and evidence state that relationship explicitly.   ### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 356 — `developed_by` → Google Research + HHMI Janelia + Harvard University collaborators** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_VERIFIED**; evidence `ZAPBENCH`. Larval zebrafish whole-brain activity + nanoscale structure dataset. - **Edge 357 — `key_person` → [[wiki/Michał Januszewski|Michał Januszewski]]** — **PRIOR_NEUROTECH_VERIFIED**; evidence `ZAPBENCH`. Google Research connectomics. #### Epistemic boundary Primary-source, peer-reviewed, company-claim, preprint, analytic, inherited-corpus, dynamic-metric, source-version-conflict, and unresolved states remain distinct. A current primary source supersedes a stale uncertainty label without erasing the correction history. No edge establishes ownership, funding, licensing, program lineage, technology transfer, operational integration, or institutional control unless its predicate and evidence explicitly do so.