The Allen Institute openly shared datasets, software, protocols, lesson plans, modeling tools, machine learning algorithms, cell lines, plasmids - and more - to accelerate bioscience research and discovery worldwide.
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Many external institutions, universities, and individuals have created computational or educational tools which utilize Allen Brain Map data. This database centralizes the location of these tools to further our mission of open science.
If you know of a tool that you believe satisfies the criteria for this database, please fill out this form to submit your tool. For all other feedback, use our contact form.

Data challenges are competitions where participants solve problems using open-source datasets, providing community members a way to directly interact with data generating labs. The Allen Institute has spearheaded multiple data challenges targeting distinct scientific challenges in brain cell typing.


Become part of a supportive community created by scientists for scientists. Find answer to your own questions and help your colleagues use brain-map resources to their full extend with Community Forum's diverse content.

From sharing the latest advances in neuroscience to showing science teachers how to inspire the next generation — our events are engaging, thought-provoking and not to be missed.