Industrialized Science

Wired has now put more photos from my article on the Allen Brain Atlas online. They're grotesquely gorgeous:

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While the Allen Atlas of gene expression has already proven itself to be a valuable research tool, I think the project's most profound long-term impact will come from its methodological innovations. For the most part, modern science remains a field of artisans, of technicians and grad students doing experiments by hand. However, because the Allen Institute needed to generate such vast