Installation requirements

Technical information

Client-side web application, requires HTML5 canvas. Standalone, but relies on accessing external data source(s) either via co-hosting or CORS.

Conditions of use

Licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International for the main component. Source code: MIT License.

Citation of the tool

-RRID:SCR_023481

-Puchades MA, Csucs G, Ledergerber D, Leergaard TB, Bjaalie JG (2019)

Spatial registration of serial microscopic brain images to three-dimensional reference atlases with the QuickNII tool. PLOS ONE 14(5): e0216796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216796

Cite funding

LocaliZoom is developed at the Neural Systems Laboratory, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo (Norway), with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Framework Partnership Agreement No. 650003 (HBP FPA).

Citation of the atlases embedded in the tool

LocaliZoom is displaying the following reference atlases:

Allen Mouse Brain Atlas version 3 2015

Allen Mouse Brain Atlas version 3 2017

Waxholm Space Atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat v2

Waxholm Space Atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat v3

Waxholm Space Atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat v4

How to cite:

  • Allen Mouse Brain Atlas (@ 2004 Allen Institute for Brain Science. Allen Mouse Brain Atlas. Available from:

http://download.alleninstitute.org/informatics-archive/current-release/mouse_ccf/annotation/).

  • Waxholm Space atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat brain

version 1.01,2,3 and 4 (RRID: SCR_017124; Papp et al.,NeuroImage 97, 374-386, 2014; Papp et al., NeuroImage 105, 561–562, 2015; Kjonigsen et al., NeuroImage 108, 441-449, 2015; Osen et al., NeuroImage 199, 38-56, 2019; Kleven et al., in preparation)

For reuse of the Waxholm Space atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat brain,see citation policy at https://www.nitrc.org/citation/?group_id=1081