Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science has 
launched a project that builds on their earlier atlas of 
the mouse brain and goes after a bigger challenge: a 3-D 
genetic map of the human brain. They will also produce a 
similar map of the mouse spinal cord, as well as another 
atlas showing how the mouse brain develops from the fetus 
to adulthood. Data from the three new projects will be 
freely available over the Web, just as the mouse-brain 
database is today. Unlike most scientific projects, the 
Allen Institute doesn't hold back the raw data for its own 
big publication, but rather puts everything it has into the 
database as soon as it's available.