The Allen Institute for Brain Science is excited to share its latest release with the neuroscience community: the first public release of post-QC data from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) is now available in the Data Catalog. BICAN is a continuation of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) and features unprecedented diversity in cross-species specimens and data.
This release further establishes crucial infrastructure that integrates the Data Catalog with the Neuroanatomy-anchored Information Management Platform for Collaborative BICAN Data Generation (NIMP) and the fastq file storage at NeMO archive. This enables quarterly cross-consortium data releases going forward.
A new dedicated BICAN program page serves as the visual entry point to BICAN data within the Data Catalog. It features a general description of the consortium effort and goals. It also includes interactive dashboards that give an overview of the BICAN data ecosystem, as well as featured projects and links to other highlighted web resources.
Scientists can explore data from 6 labs, totaling 255 donors, 1461 specimens(library aliquots), and 20 data collections. This includes developmental mouse data from the Allen Institute for Brain Science (Zeng) & University of California, San Francisco (Nowakowski), cross-species data from the Allen Institute for Brain Science (Lein), marmoset data from Princeton University (Krienen), as well as multi-modal human data from Broad Institute (McCarroll) & Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Ecker).
They are accessible via a dedicated project page and specimen browser. The latter features a multi-level viewing experience broken down by library aliquot or donor. Scientists can download specimen metadata and file manifests that match the filters selected in the user interface.
We’re planning to release additional modalities from other archives in regular intervals. We value your feedback. Please let us know what you think and what you’d like to see in future updates!
Go to the BICAN program page.
Go to the BICAN Rapid Release project page.
Go to the BICAN Rapid Release specimen browser.
Learn more about BICAN on Portal.brain-map.org.
Learn more about BICAN Rapid Release on Portal.brain-bican.org.
Read the user documentation.
Explore an example use: downloading a file manifest for all female chimpanzees from Ed Lein’s UM1MH130981 grant.