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The Cell Body is the start of the Cell, where from the dendrites start. There isn't much scientific value to tracing a cell body or CB and when they're not frozen by admins players are encouraged to skip those cubes including a CB inside them. Ganglion cells may have an axon whereas SACs (Starburst amacrine cells) do not have axons.
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The Cell Body (which is sometimes referred to as a soma, perikaryon, or cyton) is the large bulbous end of a neuron, which contains the cell nucleus. For the purpose of [Retinal Connectomics], the cell body is generally uniformative. As well as having the nucleus, the dendrites and axon also branch off of the cell body.
  
The admins freeze Cell bodies because as previously stated they hold no scientific value to them and because the AI does a really horrible job at tracing them, merging them with glial, blood vessels and other Cells.
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In EyeWire the cell bodies are often [[frozen]] because they take a lot of time to trace, are uniformative, and the [[Artificial Intelligence]] has trouble with them, since it's designed for dendrites.
  
 
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Revision as of 17:40, 17 June 2014

The Cell Body (which is sometimes referred to as a soma, perikaryon, or cyton) is the large bulbous end of a neuron, which contains the cell nucleus. For the purpose of [Retinal Connectomics], the cell body is generally uniformative. As well as having the nucleus, the dendrites and axon also branch off of the cell body.

In EyeWire the cell bodies are often frozen because they take a lot of time to trace, are uniformative, and the Artificial Intelligence has trouble with them, since it's designed for dendrites.