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Industrializing neuroscience

Nature volume 445, pages 160–161 (2007)Cite this article

The project for producing a genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain shows how, with advancing technology, huge volumes of data can be collected and made accessible through the Internet.

It took until the beginning of the twenty-first century for the Industrial Revolution to reach life science, an event marked by the sequencing of the human genome1,2. The wave of industrialization is sweeping on, not least in neuroscience, where it is especially evident in the Allen Institute for Brain Science's effort to map the 'transcriptome' of the entire mouse brain — the brain locations where each of 21,500 genes is activated. Following online publication last month, results from the project appear on page 168 of this issue3.

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Figure 1: Three-dimensional gene expression in the mouse brain.

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