# Allen Institute **Domain:** Brain Science / Cell Science / Biological Atlases **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Neural Mapping]], biological atlases, open science, [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **Allen Institute** is a nonprofit bioscience research institution known for large-scale, openly shared datasets and atlases in brain and cell science. ## Corpus Context Its atlases are part of the representational substrate from which computational models of living systems are built. They clarify a core distinction: increasingly complete description can deepen reconstruction without automatically resolving identity or subjective continuity. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Allen Institute for Brain Science](https://alleninstitute.org/division/brain-science/)