Nature Publishing and the Allen Institute for Brain Science announce the launch of the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for cutting-edge neuroscience and genomics research
The first update of the Neuroscience Gateway, which has been developed as a close collaboration between NPG and the Allen Institute, will be available on 4 May 2006, and twice a month thereafter.
The Neuroscience Gateway will provide a library of the latest papers, up-to-the-minute neuroscience news, and free access to highlights of key articles.
Specially written reviews will feature current research papers important to the neuroscience and genomics communities.
Each update will also include a neurotechnique review, highlighting a recent technical advance.
Building on the successes of the other NPG collaborations such as the AFCS-Nature Signaling Gateway, and the Cell Migration Gateway, the Neuroscience Gateway will provide free access to highlighted primary research papers from journals in the Nature family.
The Neuroscience Gateway will also present direct access to the Allen Brain Atlas, a freely available scientific resource developed by the Allen Institute.
The Allen Brain Atlas provides maps of the expression of approximately 20,000 genes in the mouse brain with detailed gene expression data available at the cellular level.
The Allen Brain Atlas is the inaugural project of the Allen Institute.
Located in Seattle, Washington, this institute was founded in 2003 by philanthropists Paul Allen and Jody Allen Patton as a nonprofit corporation and medical research organization.
Paul Allen provided $100 million in seed money to fund the Allen Brain Atlas and to initiate other scientific programs.
In addition to the Atlas, the Allen Institute will pursue additional research to further understanding of neuronal circuitry and the neuroanatomical framework that defines the functionality of the brain.
The scientific core of the Allen Institute is a multidisciplinary group of neuroscientists, molecular biologists, informaticists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians and computational biologists.
