Sanger Human Cell Atlasing Project

"Cell Atlasing" refers to a novel strategy to characterise cells in tissues at the molecular level in a quantitative manner. The international Human Cell Atlas consortium brings together a community of biologists, clinicians, technologists, physicists, computational scientists, software engineers, and mathematicians to capitalise on drawing together leaders with various biological, technical and computational expertise. The project is based on the aim to define all human cell types in terms of their distinctive patterns of gene expression, physiological states, developmental trajectories, and location. This will pave the way to create a reference map of all human cells as a basis for understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.