# Key Points from IRC Log (March 26, 2016)

* Neurokernel, an open source platform for emulating the fruit fly brain, was shared with links to its GitHub repository, documentation, and related papers showing the modular structure of the fruit fly brain and connectomics-based analysis.

* BigNeuron and DIADEM were discussed as projects focused on automated neuron tracing and reconstruction algorithms, with links to their repositories, datasets, and reconstruction results spreadsheets.

* Vaa3D (3D visualization-assisted analysis) was highlighted as a tool for neuron tracing and visualization, with links to demonstration videos showing fly neuron tracing and brain compartment atlas visualization.

* Several computational neuroscience resources were shared, including the FlyCircuit database which contains neuronal image data and wiring diagrams of the Drosophila brain.

* A paper on "The role of photonics in energy" was shared, suggesting interest in how photonic technologies might contribute to energy solutions.

* There was a brief philosophical discussion about brain-computer interfaces, with participants humorously debating approaches to "putting the internet in the brain" and the theoretical possibility of digitizing brains to run on distributed computing clusters.