HTAN Phase 1 is complete! Release 7.0 is now live on the HTAN Data Portal spanning
🏥 64 cancer types
👥 2,372 participants
🧪 11,378 biospecimens
🧬 32 assays
📊 233,284 data files

Explore it now: data.humantumoratlas.org

📣 Our perspective paper on building the Human Tumor Atlas Network Data Coordinating Center is out in Nature Methods!
Led by the excellent Ino de Bruijn and Milen Nikolov, it captures how we’ve made large-scale, multi-modal cancer data findable, explorable, & reusable.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16TB collection of federal public datasets linked by data.gov, including over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, are now part of a new data vault project seeking to preserve vital research data.

lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

#openscience #datapreservation

I’m doing a lot of yelling at NIH, but I want to specifically say that I fully support all the SRO/POs. This is not on them. They need to be there for the rebuilding effort (which will come) in the future. The community needs to fight on their behalf as well.

Spatial multi-omics has just gone to the next level!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
—Integration of 5 omic modalities w/ spatial resolution at 20 -50 μm
—"a new era for characterizing tissue & cellular heterogeneity that single-modality studies alone could not reveal"

Tufnell Park Farmers Marker haul. Not pictured the best corn empanadas ever. Devoured immediately.

Dark times at NIH, but today's first steering committee for Phase 2 of #HTAN reminds us what's at stake. Brilliant cell atlas teams forging ahead, mapping cancer in unprecedented detail. New working groups in viz, compute & translation and outreach will be beacons of light.

The grant is submitted. The old fashioned is made. The jazz is playing. The book is being read. Time to breathe.