Projects

BCA Phase 0

Project Name: In support of creating standardized approaches for cell atlases and a cell atlas database for the scientific community (BCA Phase 0).

• Duration: 2024-2027
• Amount granted: $3,789,057

Objectives

• Build the computational infrastructure for the BCA, including standardized data processing pipelines and the BCA database.
• Establish a single-cell methods decision tree for the BCA, including specimen sampling, dissociation/nuclei extraction, and single-cell RNA-seq technologies.

Coordinator

Centre for Genomic Regulation (Arnau Sebé-Pedrós) 

Subgrantees

• Centre for Organismal Studies - University of Heidelberg (Lauren Saunders) 
• University of Oxford (Thomas Richards) 
• University of Exter (Jordi Solana) 
• Earlham Institute (Irene Papatheodorou) 
• University of Chicago (Heather Marlow)

Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Team

Andrés Becerra

Antonio Hermoso

Bonita van Waardenburg

Clemente Borges

David Brena

Jim Renema

Léa Pimparé

Nuno Saraiva Agostinho

Rachel Parker

Sebastian Rodrigo Najle

Tatiana Pashkovskaia

Wellcome Sanger Institute Team

Di Zhou

Heidelberg University Team

Merve Çetiner

Funders

This project is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF12189 to the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG).