The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium: Lessons Learned toward Generating a Comprehensive Brain Cell Atlas

Neuron

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 542-557

  Ecker, Joseph R ^a   Geschwind, Daniel H ^b   Kriegstein, Arnold R ^c   Ngai, John ^d   Osten, Pavel ^e   Polioudakis, Damon ^b   Regev, Aviv ^f   Sestan, Nenad ^g   Wickersham, Ian R ^h   Zeng, Hongkui ⁱ  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

anatomy; BRAIN initiative; cell census; connectivity; electrophysiology; human brain; mouse brain; single cell epigenomics; single cell RNA seq; single cell transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN MAPPING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPMENT; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; REVIEW; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOOK; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 85032835137     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.10.007     Document Type: Review

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