High level overview of Neuroglancer

Neuroglancer is a WebGL-based viewer for volumetric data. Below is an overview of important modules used for creating/editing/deleting different types of annotations and saving them in the database. Click on the links for each module to see the detailed overview of each module.

Neurglancer Annotations Module

Responsible for handling annotations in Neuroglancer end-to-end: drawing using WebGL, serializing/deserializing for saving in database etc.

• Annotation Module: Supports common operations for annotations across neuroglancer like serializing for loading in WebGL, converting to JSON for exporting to database, data type definitions etc.
• Polygon Module: Supports various operations for rendering Polygons.
• COM Module: Supports various operations for rendering COMs.
• Cell Module: Supports various operations for rendering Cells.
• Volume Module: Supports various operations for rendering Volumes.

Neuroglancer UI Module

Supports generating HTML UI elements used across neuroglancer for drawing annotations like annotation tools, volume session, cell session etc.

• Annotation UI Module: Supports multiple operations for annotations across neuroglancer for drawing UI elements.
• Volume session UI Module: Responsible for creating the Volume session UI element.
• COM session UI Module: Responsible for creating the COM session UI element.
• Cell session UI Module: Responsible for creating the Cell session UI element.

Services Module: Responsible for the loading of the JSON state from the Django database portal via the REST API.