The goal

The era of circuit mapping, ushered in by the advent of optogenetics and chemogenetics, has changed the landscape of neuroscience research and has re-energized the hope for novel understandings of disordered affective states. The era of circuit mapping has amassed a large amount of data but this data largely exists as stand-alone studies. Due to the complexity of whole brain functional connectivity, a unified picture is needed. MouseCircuits.org aims to serve as a tool for researchers by serving as a centralized and consolidated location for circuit-mapping data. MouseCircuits.org was established as a “one-stop” entry point to facilitate access to relevant data and to encourage data sharing within the neuroscience community to maximize data visibility and impact. We believe that viewing the rich and precise data from circuit-mapping in such an integrative format can aid in informing new studies and in the shared vision of many researchers in which circuit dissection studies ultimately leads to prevention and treatment of human disorders.