Big Science, Team Science, and Open Science for Neuroscience.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science is a non-profit private institution dedicated to basic brain science with an internal organization more commonly found in large physics projects-large teams generating complete, accurate and permanent resources for the mouse and human brain. It can also be viewed as an experiment in the sociology of neuroscience. We here describe some of the singular differences to more academic, PI-focused institutions.
Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: christofk@alleninstitute.org.
Christof
C
Koch
Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Allan
A
Jones
D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000458:organization & administration*