Square grid image resembling the periodic table, depicting 46 types of neurons in the visual cortex of a mouse brain organized by function. Neuron images created by Hongkui Zeng’s team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science using dye-injected probes to color neurons and computational analysis to classify cell types.
Credit: Allen Institute for Brain Science

Kiku Ichihara, Managing Director of the Center for Human Brain Variation, was recently featured in a GenomeWeb article covering the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) program’s first major data release.

The article highlights contributions from Ichihara and the Center for Human Brain Variation, which provided essential spatial and transcriptomic data from 20 human brains. The data release also includes extensive single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles from humans, mice, and other mammals contributed by BICAN groups.

Read the full article (paid subscription required) for more on this work and its implications for understanding brain function and disease.