An interactive tool for neurobiologists to explore the detailed neuroanatomy, neuron connectivity and gene expression of the Drosophila melanogaster.

Prefix
vfb
Keywords
life science neurobiology
Links
Homepage
Publications
2012 Web tools for large-scale 3D biological images and atlases
2012 A strategy for building neuroanatomy ontologies
2011 The Virtual Fly Brain browser and query interface
Web tools for large-scale 3D biological images and atlases
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Virtual Fly Brain should match this regular expression:
^[0-9a-zA-Z]{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
00000001   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Virtual Fly Brain should match this regular expression:
^vfb:[0-9a-zA-Z]{8}$

Example CURIE
vfb:00000001
Metaregistry Virtual Fly Brain

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.nzaz6z
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam vfb
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t vfb
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100011373
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 00000001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Virtual Fly Brain. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Virtual Fly Brain vfb http://virtualflybrain.org/reports/00000001
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/vfb:00000001
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/vfb:00000001
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/vfb:00000001