Mouse Spinal Cord

In response to requests from the spinal cord research community and with funding support from a diverse array of donors, the Atlas provides a baseline map of the normal mouse when used to compare gene expression in diseased or injury models.

With the first release, more than 4000 imageseries representing 2000 genes in both the adult and juvenile cord are available. A new application to view and search the images is also available and presented as an online public database along with other Allen Institute resources. Gene expression annotation is available for the entire data set, and the adult data also includes structure annotation in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal segments. Additional data and tools will be released in November 2008. Upon completion, the full data set will include genome-wide coverage.

Detailed technical documents, and lists of funders and scientific contributors to this project can be found under the Mouse Spinal Cord project tab.

View the Washington D.C. announcement of the Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, the world's first genome-wide map of the mouse spinal cord:

You can download and view a full length version of the announcement here.