Brain CONNECTS - Bryant McGill

# Brain CONNECTS **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Neuroscience funding and mapping program **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Relationships - Brain CONNECTS is described as a [[wiki/National Institutes of Health|NIH]] follow-on route for scaling connectivity mapping beyond the [[wiki/MICrONS|MICrONS]] cortical volume. - It is related to the [[wiki/BRAIN Initiative|BRAIN Initiative]] but should retain its own program identity. - A scaling objective is not a completed whole-mouse-brain connectome.  ### Master relationship graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Resolved aliases:** `NIH BRAIN CONNECTS` **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Neurotechnology Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 352 — `goal` → [[wiki/Brain CONNECTS|whole-brain wiring diagrams across mouse, human, and non-human primate scales]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_DCC`. - **Edge 353 — `center_PI` → [[wiki/Jeff Lichtman|Jeff Lichtman]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Harvard high-throughput integrative mouse connectomics center. - **Edge 354 — `center_PI` → [[wiki/Forrest Collman|Forrest Collman]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Allen Institute whole-mouse EM pipeline center. - **Edge 355 — `center_PI` → [[wiki/Nuno Macarico da Costa|Nuno da Costa]]** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Allen Institute whole-mouse EM pipeline center. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 351 — [[wiki/Allen Institute Connectomics|Allen Institute Connectomics]] `program` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `ALLEN_CONNECT`, `BRAIN_CONNECTS_AWARDS`. Scaling toward whole-mouse synaptic connectivity. - **Edge 352 — [[wiki/Brain CONNECTS|NIH BRAIN CONNECTS]] `goal` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `BRAIN_CONNECTS_DCC`. #### Epistemic boundary `VERIFIED`, `VERIFIED_SECONDARY`, `CORPUS`, `STRONG_TECHNICAL_LINEAGE`, `STRONG_TECHNICAL_CONVERGENCE`, `ANALYTIC`, and `UNRESOLVED` are retained as distinct relation states. An edge does not imply ownership, control, funding, licensing, technology transfer, or organizational identity unless its predicate and evidence state that relationship explicitly.