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The Human Cell Atlas is a project to describe all cell types in the human body. The initiative was announced by a consortium after its inaugural meeting in London in October 2016, which established the first phase of the project.Aviv Regev and Sarah Teichmann defined the goals of the project at that meeting, which was convened by the Broad Institute, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Wellcome Trust. Regev and Teichmann lead the project.
Description
The Human Cell Atlas will catalogue a cell based on several criteria, specifically the cell type, its state, its location in the body, the transitions it undergoes, and its lineage. It will gather data from existing research, and integrate it with data collected in future research projects. Among the data it will collect is the fluxome, genome, metabolome, proteome, and transcriptome.
Its scope is to categorize the 37 trillion cells of the human body to determine which genes each cell expresses by sampling cells from all parts of the body.
All aspects of the project will be made "available to the public for free", including software and results.
By April 2018, the project included more than 480 researchers conducting 185 projects.
Funding
In October 2017, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced funding for 38 projects related to the Human Cell Atlas. Among them was a grant of undisclosed value to the Zuckerman Institute of the Columbia University Medical Center at Columbia University. The grant, titled "A strategy for mapping the human spinal cord with single cell resolution", will fund research to identify and catalogue gene activity in all spinal cord cells. The Translational Genomics Research Institute received a grant to develop a standard for the "processing and storage of solid tissues for single-cell RNA sequencing", compared to the typical practice of relying on the average of sequencing multiple cells. Project home pages are available from https://www.czbiohub.org/tabula-projects/.
The program is also backed by European Union, the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and the Manton Foundation.
Data
In April 2018, the first data set from the project was released, representing 530,000 immune system cells collected from bone marrow and cord blood.
A research program at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics published an atlas of the cells of the liver, using single-cell RNA sequencing on 10,000 normal cells obtained from nine donors.
The Tabula Sapeins data was published on a dedicated website
See also
- List of distinct cell types in the adult human body
- Human Genome Project
- ENCODE - Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)
- Human Protein Atlas
- Aizarani, Nadim; Saviano, Antonio; Sagar, Laurent Mailly; Durand, Sarah; Herman, Josip S.; Pessaux, Patrick; Baumert, Thomas F.; Grün, Dominic (10 July 2019). "A human liver cell atlas reveals heterogeneity and epithelial progenitors". Nature. 572 (7768): 199–204. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1373-2. PMC 6687507. PMID 31292543.
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- Farivar, Cyrus (30 September 2017). "To better grok how all 37 trillion human cells work, we need new tools". Ars Technica. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
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- Preidt, Robert (17 October 2016). "Scientists plan to map every cell in the human body". CBS News. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- Regev, Aviv. "The Human Cell Atlas" (PDF). Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- Sample, Ian (14 October 2016). "Human Cell Atlas project aims to map the human body's 35 trillion cells". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- Silva, Catarina (20 October 2017). "Columbia researchers receive funding from Facebook founder to create atlas of spinal cord cells". ALS News Today. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- Yup, Sang (26 June 2017). "Human Cell Atlas Opens a New Window to Health and Disease". Scientific American. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
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- "International Human Cell Atlas Initiative" (Press release). Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
Further reading
- Rozenblatt-Rosen, O.; Stubbington, M.J.T.; Regev, A.; Teichmann, S.A. (18 October 2017). "The Human Cell Atlas: from vision to reality". Nature. 550 (7677): 451–453. Bibcode:2017Natur.550..451R. doi:10.1038/550451a. PMID 29072289. S2CID 205095818.
External links
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Official website
- Regev A, Teichmann SA, Lander ES, Amit I, Benoist C, Birney E, et al. (Human Cell Atlas Meeting Participants) (8 May 2017). "The Human Cell Atlas". bioRxiv 10.1101/121202.
- Ledford, Heidi (23 February 2017). "The race to map the human body — one cell at a time". Nature. 542 (7642): 404–405. Bibcode:2017Natur.542..404L. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21508. PMID 28230136.
- Cepelewicz, Jordana (12 July 2017). "Cell Atlases Reveal Biology's Frontiers". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- "Human Cell Atlas data platform kicks off with support from CZI" (Press release). Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- Regev, Aviv (June 2017). "Creating a census of human cells". Nautilus. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- Yong, Ed (14 October 2016). "A Google Maps for the human body". The Atlantic. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
