Biomedical researchers will have a similar tool to help them navigate the human body's vast network of cells.
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The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program, or HuBMAP, is an international research consortium with the common goal of creating a global atlas of healthy cells in the human body.
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When finished, the resource will be made freely available to drug developers and clinical researchers, who will be able to use it to shape the development of specialised medical treatments.
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HuBMAP's concept is similar to the National Institutes of Health's Human Genome Project, which sequenced every gene in the human body.
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Bioinformaticians at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University,
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and Stanford University are in charge of transforming this massive amount of data into a usable tool.
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"Creating an ecosystem that can connect all the different pieces of data into a single large knowledge resource is a difficult job, but that's what this team has special expertise in;
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we are good at integrating all kinds of various pieces of software and making them run," said Jonathan Silverstein, co-lead of the Pittsburgh HuBMAP Infrastructure and Engagement Component at Pitt.
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