The Allen Human Brain Atlas is a unique multi-modal atlas of the human brain, integrating anatomic and genomic information and coupled with a suite of visualization and data mining tools.
"Brain Explorer" is a feature of the site that must be downloaded and installed as a destop application.
The "Planar View" application is web-based and allows users to visualize expression of a specified gene painted onto an MRI map.
Users have access to experimental microarray, high resolution in situ hybridization, and MRI data, which has been integrated into the portals brain atlases.
Specific genes and brain sections are targeted in in situ hybridization studies focusing on neurotransmitters, cortex, subcortex, schizophrenia and autism.