Research corpus and reading guides
Search research papers or explore recorded citation links. These are two views of the same 2000-paper corpus, not separate curated collections.
What the records establish
Publication metadata and recorded abstracts help you locate original work. A source-checked contribution note, where available, states what a publication reports, its test context, limitations, the source used, and how it was checked. An AI-assisted abstract check is not full-text review, expert review, or independent validation.
Topic and organism tags are navigation aids. They do not establish use of a named dataset, a protocol, an affiliation, a result, or scientific importance. In particular, scanning electron microscopy does not imply MICrONS dataset use. A citation is a recorded reference, not evidence of agreement or methodological reuse.
Historical category-generated research notes and unsupported dataset/method associations have been removed from the public cards and exports. A missing contribution note means it has not been source-checked here; it does not mean the publication has no contribution.
Download the corpus
The three nested subsets retain their existing selection. Subset membership and imported network metrics are not an editorial ranking of demonstrated scientific wins.
500-paper subset · 1,000-paper subset · Full corpus
Export schema version 2 contains bibliography, recorded abstracts, citation references, navigational tags, and DOI-specific contribution notes where available. Legacy generated annotation fields are null or empty. Consumers should inspect the schema version rather than assume earlier summaries remain available.
How the collection is maintained.
Topic reading guides
The separate course reading guides below remain available. Reading guides provide context; check substantive claims against their cited publications.
| Category | Count | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroanatomy | 8 | Ultrastructural foundations, synapses, and organelles |
| Imaging | 8 | Volume EM, FIB-SEM, and serial sectioning |
| Computer Vision & ML | 10 | Automated segmentation, affinity graphs, and FFNs |
| Data Storage & Infrastructure | 8 | Petascale volumetric cloud stores and spatial indexing |
| Proofreading & Annotation | 8 | Human-in-the-loop proofreading and citizen science |
| Cell Types & Morphology | 8 | Morphological classification and synaptic fingerprints |
| Connectomics | 8 | Saturated reference connectomes across species |
| Network Analysis | 10 | Graph theory, motifs, and topological invariance |
| MRI & Meso-Connectomics | 10 | Diffusion MRI and macroscale tractography |
| NeuroAI & Biophysics | 8 | Connectome-constrained artificial neural networks |
| Case Studies | 10 | Biological circuit discoveries and behavioral mechanisms |
Total: 96 papers across the 11 linked reading guides; these are guide entries, not 96 additional corpus records.