Visualizing the human brain

Computational biologist Ahmed Mahfouz, Ph.D., used data exclusively from the Allen Brain Atlas for his dissertation and to explore a signature of autism risk genes. He and his colleagues at Delft University of Technology and Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands also developed the open-source data visualization tool BrainScope, which was built on our publicly available human data.

Getting deep into the brain

What happens when we need to learn about cells deeper in the brain--ones we cannot see right on the surface? Allen Institute for Brain Science scientists recently published a paper in Nature Communications to address this issue.

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New data and visualizations for the Allen Brain Observatory

In addition to bringing the total number of cells surveyed in the Allen Brain Observatory to nearly 40,000, the June data release included key improvements to algorithms that decrease noise and match cells across experiments, leading to a more robust and usable resource for researchers around the world to study how visual information is processed in the brain.

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Thanks for attending NeuroFutures 2017

The Allen Institute for Brain Science was pleased to participate in this year's NeuroFutures conference, with five speakers and two members on the conference planning committee.

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Save the date for Showcase 2017

This year's Showcase Symposium will take place at the Allen Institute on December 13-14, 2017. Join us in the exploration of understanding the brain through innovative, team science approaches and our study of the human cell as an integrated system.

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