get_predicted_neurotransmitters

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Get the PREDICTED neurotransmitter(s) for a Drosophila neuron class — itself or any subclass — from per-instance connectome predictions (each reconstructed neuron carries a predicted transmitter with a confidence). Use this for "what neurotransmitter does <cell type> use?" when you want the data-driven prediction and its confidence. By default results are aggregated to flat per-class rows (one per cell type × neurotransmitter) with instance counts, percent_of_class and mean_confidence; set aggregate=false for one row per individual neuron. Set split_by_dataset=true to get one row per (cell type, neurotransmitter, dataset) so you can see agreement across connectomes. The neurotransmitter is reported as a GO secretion term (nt_id/nt_label), the same id space as get_known_neurotransmitters. This is distinct from get_known_neurotransmitters, which returns the ontology-curated classification without confidence. CONSTRAINTS: neuron class terms only (FBbt id or label); use search_terms with filter_types ["neuron","class"] to canonicalize. RECOMMENDED: exclude_dbs defaults to ["hb","fafb"]; pass [] for all datasets.