The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project that aims to map the transcriptome of all the cell types in the human body. This effort relies on single cell data generated from hundreds of labs across the globe, which will be combined together into one comprehensive reference atlas. The Data Portal helps to coordinate the data produced and standardise the format of data and metadata, to reduce the burden of the integration efforts.

In this webinar we will provide an overview of data generation for HCA and how the data is curated for the Data Portal. We will demonstrate how to navigate the Data Portal to find data that can be used for integration, or as controls for your studies, how to access the data, and how to find the latest data from the integration efforts.

Who is this course for?

This webinar is suitable for any student or researcher in life sciences who is interested in working with single cell transcriptomics data. No prior knowledge of bioinformatics is required.

This event is part of a webinar series - Molecular building blocks of life - showcasing the EMBL-EBI resources that provide data and tools for studying molecular building blocks of life at molecular level such as metabolites, DNA/RNA, proteins, and at systems level such as cells. Check out other webinars in this series.

Please note that we are not able to provide certificates of attendance for our webinars.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

• Navigate the HCA data portal
• Recognise the the curation process used for the data portal  
• Access and download data from the HCA data platform

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.HumanCellAtlas-w.2023.00001.1

This webinar took place on 22 November 2023. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.