Public Resources

Serving the scientific community is at the center of our mission to accelerate progress toward understanding the brain and neurological systems. Creating tools and data that advance the pursuits of the thousands of scientists around the world is our contribution to revolutionary neuroscience. To this end, the Allen Institute’s resources—each a groundbreaking creation—are free and publicly available online via the ALLEN BRAIN ATLAS data portal.

By integrating genomic and anatomic information, as well as sophisticated data search and viewing tools, our unique resources offer researchers unprecedented access to details and patterns of gene activity throughout the brain.  The Human Genome Project established what the genes are.  The Allen Institute’s public resources take a critical next step toward understanding their biological functions by revealing where they are expressed, or “turned on,” in the brain.