The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program, or HuBMAP, is an international consortium of researchers with a shared goal of developing a global atlas of healthy cells in the human body.
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Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), HuBMAP is working to catalyze the development of a framework for mapping the human body at a level of cells.
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The idea behind HuBMAP is akin to the National Institutes of Health’s Human Genome Project, which sequenced every single gene in the human body.
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The goal of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) is to develop an open and global platform to map healthy cells in the human body.
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Scientists estimate there are 37 trillion cells in an adult human body, so determining the function and relationship among these cells is a monumental undertaking.
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It will accelerate the development of tools and techniques for constructing high resolution 3D spatial maps that quantify biomolecules.
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HuBMAP consists of 18 funded components at over 50 research institutions across the U.S. and Europe.
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Scientific teams in Pittsburgh and at Stanford will receive $20 Million in Renewed Grants from NIH to Map Human Body at Cellular Resolution.
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The HuBMAP Computational Tools , led by Matthew Ruffalo of Carnegie Mellon’s Computational Biology Department, has developed computational pipelines for processing molecular datasets.