# View my own volumetric data in BrainExplorer

**URL:** <https://community.brain-map.org/t/view-my-own-volumetric-data-in-brainexplorer/247>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Tags:** reference-coordinates, api, brain-explorer, how-to, atlas-reference-maps\
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.brain-map.org/t/view-my-own-volumetric-data-in-brainexplorer/247 "2019-08-21T16:44:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jw156605](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jw156605](https://community.brain-map.org/u/jw156605)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.brain-map.org/t/view-my-own-volumetric-data-in-brainexplorer/247/1 "2019-08-21T16:44:56Z")

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Is it possible to load my own volumetric data into the [brain explorer](http://connectivity.brain-map.org/3d-viewer)? For example, suppose I wanted to take the cell coordinates from this study ([https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6280067/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6280067/)) and view them alongside the streamline projection data in the brain explorer. Is there any way I could do this?

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**Author:** ![amyb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.brain-map.org/amyb/32/32_2.png) [@amyb](https://community.brain-map.org/u/amyb)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.brain-map.org/t/view-my-own-volumetric-data-in-brainexplorer/247/2 "2019-08-22T15:44:54Z")

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Hi @jw156605,  
Thanks for your question. In short, no, it is not possible to ‘upload’ or view your data through the Allen Brain Atlas website. There’s a long post related to this topic, here:

> [@Mouse brain reference atlases & mapping your own data](https://community.brain-map.org/t/mouse-brain-reference-atlases-mapping-your-own-data/243):
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> How do I map my data to your reference atlas? We have been hearing this question (or variants of it) for as long as the [Allen Mouse Brain Atlas](http://mouse.brain-map.org/static/atlas) has been online. The short answer is, We do not have a tool for this - but we have provided some resources to help, and many other researchers (and even companies!) have developed their own solutions. Some of those are shared here, and we welcome your additions to this list - either as publications, references to software or comments from other scie…

We love the article you referenced, but the work described isn’t originated by the Allen Institute and we do not provide technical support for third party parojects. The [Blue Brain Cell Atlas is a project by EPFL](https://bbp.epfl.ch/nexus/cell-atlas/doc/about.html) that uses the [Allen Brain Atlas API](https://allensdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data_api_client.html), framework and data, but has expanded and extended applications for their data visualization goals. We encourage you to contact the authors of that work directly, to learn more about how you might view your own data in their framework.