Developer meeting 25/01/2024

[alessandrofelder]

Templateflow hack

Igor, Niko and Alessandro spent some time exploring how easy it would be to incorporate templateflow atlases into the BrainGlobe atlas API

• on the fly will be tricky, because there are no meshes for each annotation
• automating all of them with the same script also tricky, as they each atlas looks wildly different
• a macaque atlas looks like a good initial candidate to convert because it looks well-annotated and we don't have one for macaques yet.
• next quarter may be a good time for this

Various thing are work-in-progress

• developer docs
• napari layergroups
• template-builder
• citation files and tool

BrainGlobe registration

• new feature added to scale input images.

BrainGlobe stitcher

• The backend is in good shape, but providing a napari frontend will take some time

Future plans

• Reducing code duplication by refactoring into brainglobe-utils identified as potential subproject for new starter in March.