Googling brain proteins with 3-D goggles

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Abundance profiles of four different proteins compiled from 1 millimeter cubes (voxels) in a mouse brain. The boxes correspond to the locations of the voxels in the brain and the colors represent their relative abundance in each region (from high red ...
Abundance profiles of four different proteins compiled from 1 millimeter cubes (voxels) in a mouse brain. The boxes correspond to the locations of the voxels in the brain, and the colors represent their relative abundance in each region (from high, red, to low, violet). Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as “Google of the brain.” The atlas now has a companion or the brain’s working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of the proteins, or proteome map, that those genes express.


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