Collaboration across scales: More than the sum of its parts.

The NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) released its first publication package, presenting an initial, comprehensive reference framework effort for the human brain.

• Why it matters: Building a reference framework for the human brain requires coordination at an exceptional scale, beyond typical collaborative science.
• What they did: The work is presented in Cell as a publication package, alongside related papers across Cell Genomics, Cell Reports, Cell Reports Methods, Cell Systems, and Neuron.
• The result: This first BICAN package establishes an early, large-scale reference framework publication effort that supports ongoing atlas development for the human brain.

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