He emphasizes that NIH's plan applies only to its own portion of the
BRAIN project — neither the National Science Foundation, which has committed $ 20 million to the project, nor the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has pledged $ 50 million, has
released a road
map for their research, or explained how they are setting priorities.
Last September the institute
released a complete genomic
map of the mouse
brain — a free, searchable, three - dimensional analysis of 21,000 genes (including 85million images) that will help neuroscientists understand how different regions of the
brain operate and interact.