So I expected this to be about the human brain since sites like http://mousebrain.org/ already existed, but it looks like it's research that has been done on mice brains as well? Can someone explain the differences here?
Our full human brain cell type atlas is work in progress but hopefully we’ll post the preprint early next year.
(Edit) Direct link to the papers, which are all open access: https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/598/issues/7879
I think a good comparison to this kind of work is what has happened previously in astronomy, where scientists work to answer their specific questions using large open datasets acquired using shared infrastructure (fancy telescopes for astronomy, microscopes for biology).
Here is some more ongoing work from the Allen institute where you can make a scientific proposal for their openscope (https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/research...)