Whole Mouse Brain Atlas Publication Package Highlights

The recording of this webinar is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5NHSLk6O-A

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The millions to billions of cells that comprise mammalian brains are organized into many highly specialized cell types. Previous studies have demonstrated that known and novel cell types can be identified by their single-cell gene expression profiles. However, the actual number of cell types in the brain and the degree of diversity among these cell types has been unknown. 

This webinar presents a new collection of studies from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (biccn.org) and published in Nature that report the first complete cell type atlas of a mammalian brain, with over 30 million cells profiled from the adult mouse brain using a combination of single-cell transcriptomic, epigenomic, and spatial transcriptomic approaches, identifying over 5,300 cell types in the entire mouse brain. 

These studies uncover multitudes of organizing principles of the extraordinary cell type diversity across the brain. This…