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nat: NeuroAnatomy Toolbox

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An R package for the (3D) visualisation and analysis of biological image data, especially tracings of single neurons. nat is the core package of a wider suite of neuroanatomy tools introduced at http://natverse.github.io. nat (and its ancestors) have been used in a number of papers from our group including:

Cell 2007 Cover CB 2010 Cover Food and Pheromone Integration Cell 2013 Abstract Neuron 2016

Quick Start

For the impatient …

# install
install.packages("nat")
# use
library(nat)

# plot some test data (?kcs20 for details)
# Drosophila Kenyon cells processed from raw data at http://flycircuit.tw
head(kcs20)
open3d()
plot3d(kcs20, col=type)
# get help
?nat

Installation

A confirmed stable version of nat can be installed from CRAN.

install.packages("nat")

However, nat remains under quite active development, so if you will be using nat extensively, we generally recommend installing the latest development version directly from github using the devtools package.

# install devtools if required
if (!requireNamespace("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
# then install nat
devtools::install_github("natverse/nat")

Learn

To get an idea of what nat can do:

When you’re ready to learn more:

Help

If you want some help using nat:

If you think that you have found a bug:

Thanks for your interest in nat!

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.