"When we set out to develop the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas some 8 years ago, there were those who said it couldn't be done", recalls Allan Jones, chief executive officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle (WA, USA). Those doubters were proved emphatically wrong in 2006, when the Institute published the first genomically and anatomically complete map of the mouse brain, allowing users of the free resource to pinpoint the expression of genes in the mouse brain at the level of individual cells.
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