- Allen Brain Atlas
The Allen Brain Atlas is a project within the
Allen Institute for Brain Science which seeks to combinegenomics withneuroanatomy by creatinggene expression maps for themouse brain . It was initiated inSeptember 2003 with a $100 million donation from Paul G. Allen. The atlas went public inSeptember 2006 . [Aalok Mehta , [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060926-brain-atlas.html "First-Ever Brain 'Atlas' Completed"] , "National Geographic News ", 2006 September 26] Not all knowngenes have been mapped at this point but approximately 20,000 protein-coding mRNAs have been. Data were generated using automated high-throughput procedures forin situ hybridization and data acquisition, and are publicly accessible online. [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17151600&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult ... [Nature. 2007 - PubMed Result ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.brainatlas.org/ Allen Brain Atlas]
* [http://braintechsci.blogspot.com/2006/10/paul-allen-brain-atlas-misconceptions.html Common Allen Brain Atlas Misconceptions]
* [http://primate-brain.org High-Resolution Cytoarchitectural Primate Brain Atlases]
* cite journal
author = Virginia Gewin
year = 2005
title = A Golden Age of Brain Exploration
journal =PLoS Biology
volume = 3
issue = 1
doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030024
url = http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030024
pages = e24
* [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/print?id=2494866 "New Brain Atlas Unveils 3-D Gene Map"] ,ABC News article, 2006-09-26.
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