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What Is Data Curation?

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Data curation is the active, ongoing management of data to ensure it remains accurate, findable, and useful long after it is collected. This post explains what data curation is, what data curators do, why the role is essential in modern research, and how PSC applies it to national-scale scientific data infrastructure.

The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE)

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The NIH funds 18 Common Fund programs — each generating valuable datasets, each with its own data formats, metadata standards, and portals. Individually, they’re useful. Together, they could be transformative. The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) was built to make that integration real.

This preprint describes the evolution, architecture, and practical outcomes of CFDE: a collaborative infrastructure that links Common Fund programs and makes their data findable, accessible, and reusable across program boundaries.

HuBMAP Data Portal: A Resource for Multi-Modal Spatial and Single-Cell Data of Healthy Human Tissues

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The HuBMAP Data Portal is the public face of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program — the place where the data actually lands and where the broader research community can access it. This preprint describes the portal’s architecture, capabilities, and current scale.

As of October 2025, the portal holds 5,032 datasets spanning 22 data types across 27 organ classes from 310 donors. That’s not a static archive: it’s a queryable, visualizable, analysis-ready resource.

HuBMAP: 3D Human Reference Atlas Construction and Usage

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A reference atlas is only as useful as the coordinate system it’s built on. For the human body — with its 37 trillion cells, dozens of organs, and enormous variation across individuals — building that coordinate system from scratch is one of the most ambitious undertakings in modern biology.

This paper describes HuBMAP’s 3D Human Reference Atlas (HRA) v2.0: what it contains, how it was built, and how researchers can use it to map their own data.

Advances and Prospects for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program set out to do something audacious: map the healthy human body at single-cell resolution, across all major organs, from diverse populations, and make everything freely available to the research community.

The first phase was about building the foundation — ontologies, standardized protocols, analytical pipelines, and the infrastructure needed to support a project at this scale. That work is done. The program has now entered its production phase.

HuBMAP Updates

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Reflections on teamwork and deadlines while contributing to HuBMAP at PSC.