[pamplemoose]

the headline is attention seeking since there are numerous pre-existing brain atlases that describe the anatomy/cellular/molecular parts in different ways. You can check https://portal.brain-map.org/ for many examples.

I think a good comparison to this kind of work is what has happened previously in astronomy, where scientists work to answer their specific questions using large open datasets acquired using shared infrastructure (fancy telescopes for astronomy, microscopes for biology).

Here is some more ongoing work from the Allen institute where you can make a scientific proposal for their openscope (https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/research...)