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The Allen Atlas of the adult mouse brain is a brain-wide, genome-wide data set that has been made available online, triggering a renaissance in neuroanatomy. In particular, it has been used to define brain regions in a computational,…
The Allen Atlas of the adult mouse brain is used to estimate the region-specificity of 64 cell types whose transcriptional profile in the mouse brain has been measured in microarray experiments. We systematically analyze the preliminary…
The voxelized Allen Atlas of the adult mouse brain (at a resolution of 200 microns) has been used in [arXiv:1303.0013] to estimate the region-specificity of 64 cell types whose transcriptional profile in the mouse brain has been measured in…
The Allen Brain Atlas project (ABA) generated a genome-scale collection of gene-expression profiles using in-situ hybridization. These profiles were co-registered to the three-dimensional Allen Reference Atlas (ARA) of the adult mouse…
We review quantitative methods and software developed to analyze genome-scale, brain-wide spatially-mapped gene-expression data. We expose new methods based on the underlying high-dimensional geometry of voxel space and gene space, and on…
The three-dimensional data-driven Allen Gene Expression Atlas of the adult mouse brain consists of numerized in-situ hybridization data for thousands of genes, co-registered to the Allen Reference Atlas. We propose quantitative criteria to…
Two cliques of genes identified computationally for their high co-expression in the mouse brain according to the Allen Brain Atlas, and for their enrichment in genes related to autism spectrum disorder, have recently been shown to be highly…
Cataloging the neuronal cell types that comprise circuitry of individual brain regions is a major goal of modern neuroscience and the BRAIN initiative. Single-cell RNA sequencing can now be used to measure the gene expression profiles of…
Brain mapping research in most neuroanatomical laboratories relies on conventional processing techniques, which often introduce histological artifacts such as tissue tears and tissue loss. In this paper we present techniques and algorithms…
We use the Allen Gene Expression Atlas (AGEA) and the OMA ortholog dataset to investigate the evolution of mouse-brain neuroanatomy from the standpoint of the molecular evolution of brain-specific genes. For each such gene, using the…
While modern imaging technologies such as fMRI have opened exciting new possibilities for studying the brain in vivo, histological sections remain the best way to study the anatomy of the brain at the level of single neurons. The…
The Scalable Brain Atlas (SBA) is a collection of web services that provide unified access to a large collection of brain atlas templates for different species. Its main component is an atlas viewer that displays brain atlas data as a stack…
The architecture of the brain is too complex to be intuitively surveyable without the use of compressed representations that project its variation into a compact, navigable space. The task is especially challenging with high-dimensional…
Characterizing the transcriptome architecture of the human brain is fundamental in gaining an understanding of brain function and disease. A number of recent studies have investigated patterns of brain gene expression obtained from an…
Quantitative criteria are proposed to identify genes (and sets of genes) whose expression marks a specific brain region (or a set of brain regions). Gene-expression energies, obtained for thousands of mouse genes by numerization of in-situ…
We present a novel method for quantifying the microscopic structure of brain tissue. It is based on the automated recognition of interpretable features obtained by analyzing the shapes of cells. This contrasts with prevailing methods of…
Morphology based analysis of cell types has been an area of great interest to the neuroscience community for several decades. Recently, high resolution electron microscopy (EM) datasets of the mouse brain have opened up opportunities for…
Accurate reconstruction of neuronal morphology is essential for classifying cell types and understanding brain connectivity. Recent advances in imaging and reconstruction techniques have greatly expanded the scale and quality of neuronal…
Recent cellular-level volumetric brain reconstructions have revealed high levels of anatomic complexity. Determining which structural aspects of the brain to focus on, especially when comparing with computational models and other organisms,…
Much of the genome is expressed in the vertebrate brain, with individual genes exhibiting different spatially-varying patterns of expression. These variations are not independent, with pairs of genes exhibiting complex patterns of…