# Body Annotations

After proofreading a body, users can edit the proofreading status or other biological information about the body/neuron.

## How to annotate a body

Select a body and choose ‘Annotate’ from the right click menu.  The body annotation window opens.

![Body Annotation](/files/-Lz9HmhxPWXUeXGgcxxw)

{% hint style="info" %}
The selected body will be locked when the body annotation dialog is open and unlocked automatically after the dialog close.
{% endhint %}

## Where are the annotations stored?

All the annotations will be stored as key-value pairs under the keyvalue data `<segmentation>_annotations`.  Each key of annotation is the corresponding body ID and its value is a JSON object representing the annotation.

Example:

```javascript
{
    "user": "zhaot", 
    "body ID": 1414845661, 
    "primary neurite": "PDM04", 
    "class": "Delta0L", 
    "status": "Roughly traced", 
    "comment": "hemi brain whole 20K to 30K", 
    "naming user": "zhaot", 
    "instance": "Delta12g_R"
}
```

{% hint style="info" %}
Due to a legacy  issue, the data name is annotations instead of `<segmentation>_annotations` when the segmentation name is `bodies`.
{% endhint %}


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