atlas

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The Conservatory project has created what researchers describe as a "comprehensive atlas of regulatory conservation across plants, including dozens of crop species and their wild ancestors."

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

"It's a good idea to carry a road atlas for back-up, too."

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

By mapping these gene activity patterns, they produced a detailed cellular atlas outlining the boundaries between distinct nerve cell types across the CA1 region.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2025

One of the early documents that Mr. Cheshire found is an atlas produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge between 1829 and 1844.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

It had baked all afternoon on a table by a south-facing window in the library, and now three fine meandering lines in the glaze, converging like rivers in an atlas, were all that showed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan