Search by using the visualization

From Neuronbank Help

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the Location Vis

1. How to Reach the Location Vis?
   • After Selecting the Query Criteria in "Advanced Search" function and "Submit"
   • Click on the "Location" tag, you will see the neurons display as red dot on top of the nervous system image.
2. Simple interaction with Location Vis.
   • Check the "Display all neurons" button will display all neurons currently in the database that associate with the background nervous map
   • Check the "Show Grid" button will display a 2D latice that indicate the coordiate value above the image.
   • User interaction include:
     • Mouse left Click on the image and drag: Pan the image
     • Mouse right Click on the image and drag: zoom the image
3. Hide and unhide neurons
   • Mouse right click on a neuron: show a pop-up menu. Click "hide Neuron" can hide the current neuron
   • You can hide multiple neurons by performing the above action on mutliple neurons
   • Select "Undo hide" button on the tool bar will unhide the hidden neurons from the last to the first.
   • Click "Show Hidden Neuron", it displays the list of the hidden neuron name, click on one name will undo hide for the neuron with that name.
4. Do query with the query box
   • Left Mousebutton double Click on the image and drag: create a rectangular bounding box to include the set of neurons you want to query
   • Click the "query" button will come to the Location Vis. with only the neurons within the query box.
   • Or, you can use Mouse right click on a neuron: show a pop-up menu. Click "show Neuron detail" can direct user to neuron detail page in the database.
   • in the neuron detail page, if you log in with user name and check the "edit mode" button on the top right, the page becomes editable. Click the "Enter Location" button will go to the location visualization page that support new neuron entering.

• Note: the same thing with the "anatomical search" function

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the Network Vis

1. How to Reach the Network Vis?
   • After Selecting the Query Criteria in "Search" function and "Submit" or "Query" in "Anatomical search",
   • Click on the "Network" tag, you will see the neuron connection visulaization as graphs.
2. Simple interaction with Network Vis.
   • There is a help button on the toolbar, click on it will show the mouse usage.
   • the background Pan and Zoom function the same way as in Location vis.
   • double click on one node will make it the root of the tree the node is on
   • drage the root node moves the whole tree, drag other node only move that node
3. Hide neurons and edges
   • Mouse right Click on one node or edge, shows a pop-up menu, select the "hide" menu item will hide the node and the connected edges. Select hide edge only hide that connection.
   • "Undo hide" of neurons and edges can be done by selecting the menus on the menu bar.
   • "Undo last" will unhide the latest hidden neuron, undo all will restore the vis. to initial state
4. Other vis. function
   • the pop-up menu "see detail" item takes you to the neuron or connection detail page
   • the selection box on toolbar can allow shift between "Node-link tree" and "Radial tree layout
   • in "Node-link tree" layout, use "ctrl+1,2,3,4" to change the spreading direction of each tree