ABBA in the brain?
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Led by former postdoc Bianca Silva and together with EPFL BIOP facility, the widely used brain alignment tool ABBA has just been published.
ABBA (Aligning Big Brain and Atlases) is a set of software components which allows to register images of thin serial biological tissue sections, cut in any orientation to publicly available atlases. Developed by EPFL’s BioImaging & Optics Core Facility, former postdoc Bianca Silva with her team and Johannes Gräff have now published the utility of ABBA for the brain-wide visualisation of immediate early genes, heavily used in memory research these days, in Cell Reports.