- Christof Koch: Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: christofk@alleninstitute.org.
- Allan Jones: Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science is a non-profit private institution dedicated to basic brain science with an internal organization more commonly found in large physics projects-large teams generating complete, accurate and permanent resources for the mouse and human brain. It can also be viewed as an experiment in the sociology of neuroscience. We here describe some of the singular differences to more academic, PI-focused institutions.