Janelia and the new mouse brain atlas

I had the pleasure yesterday of visiting HHMI’s new Janelia Farms Research Campus for an open house. Located just north of Dulles Airport’s runways along the Potomac River, the facility is truely a marvel. I had visited the site during the initial construction phase–the finished facility is really both an architectural landmark and also potentially a new international nexus for neurobiology.

On the virtual side, I had my first tour of the new Allen Institute’s mouse gene atlas which in its own way is equally extraordinary.

Money quote:
“By mid 2006, the Atlas project will have completed mapping gene expression in approximately 20,000 genes all of which will be available through our site.”

Go check it out, they’re all there.

Jim