Automated high-throughput mouse transsynaptic viral tracing using iDISCO+ tissue clearing, light-sheet microscopy, and BrainPipe. Author Thomas Pisano, Austin Hoag, Zahra Dhanerawala, Sara Guariglia, Caroline Jung, Henk-Jan Boele, Kelly Seagraves, Jessica Verpeut, Samuel Wang Publication Year 2022 Type Journal Article Abstract Transsynaptic viral tracing requires tissue sectioning, manual cell counting, and anatomical assignment, all of which are time intensive. We describe a protocol for BrainPipe, a scalable software for automated anatomical alignment and object counting in light-sheet microscopy volumes. BrainPipe can be generalized to new counting tasks by using a new atlas and training a neural network for object detection. Combining viral tracing, iDISCO+ tissue clearing, and BrainPipe facilitates mapping of cerebellar connectivity to the rest of the murine brain. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Pisano et al. (2021). Keywords Animals, Cerebellum, Mice, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Brain, Software Journal STAR Protoc Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 101289 Date Published 2022 Jun 17 ISSN Number 2666-1667 DOI 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101289 Alternate Journal STAR Protoc PMCID PMC9038781 PMID 35496792 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML