Chan Zuckerberg moving Human Cell Atlas forward

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative issued a request for applications (RFA) to support the Human Cell Atlas project through the development of computational tools and datasets. Applications are due Aug. 28.

The goal of the project, which was launched last October, is to develop an open-access reference atlas of cells in the human body to study health and disease. According to its website, the atlas seeks to catalog all cell types, map cell locations, distinguish cell states, characterize cell transitions and follow cell lineage. The RFA is asking for development of standard formats and analysis pipelines for genomic, proteomic and imaging data; web-based interactive visualizations of cell and imaging data; analytical methods and machine learning approaches; curated benchmark datasets; computational approaches to comparing and normalizing genomic and imaging data; and experimental datasets that address computationally guided questions in quality control, reproducibility or multi-modal integration...