The Allen Institute for Brain Science: The Allen Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization, is a leader in large-scale brain research and public sharing of data and tools.

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Private collaborators include the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Kavli Foundation, and Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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At the private Allen Institute for Brain Science, for example, scientists are trying to understand how the mouse brain processes visual information.

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