The Allen Institute for Brain Science is excited to share its latest release with the neuroscience community: the second public release of single cell transcriptomic and epigenomic 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 expands on 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.
Scientists can explore data from 7 labs, totaling 457 donors, 3204 specimens (library aliquots), and 27 data collections. This includes developmental mouse data from the Allen Institute (Zeng) & University of California, San Francisco (Nowakowski), cross-species data from the Allen Institute (Lein), marmoset data from Princeton University (Krienen), as well as multi-modal human data from Broad Institute (McCarroll), University of California Los Angeles (Luo), and 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.
Go to the BICAN Rapid Release project page.
Go to the BICAN Rapid Release specimen browser.
See all BICAN data in BKP Data Catalog on the BICAN program page.
Go straight to the file collections at NeMO archive.