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Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature 454, 373 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454373a

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Spinal cord revealed in free gene map

Allen Institute for Brain Science releases first data set.

The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released the first data from its ambitious project to map the spinal cord. When completed early next year, the freely accessible atlas will chart the expression patterns of at least 18,500 genes throughout the spinal cord of juvenile and adult mice.

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