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ReviewGenome biology2025

Insights, opportunities, and challenges provided by large cell atlases.

Martin Hemberg, Federico Marini, Shila Ghazanfar, Ahmad Al Ajami, Najla Abassi, Benedict Anchang, Bérénice A Benayoun, Yue Cao, Ken Chen, Yesid Cuesta-Astroz and 22 more

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Review in Genome biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Integration of large, complex single-cell datasets with Harmony2.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors.

Martin Hemberg *The Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. mhemberg@bwh.harvard.edu.
Federico Marini *Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany. marinif@uni-mainz.de.
Shila Ghazanfar *School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia. shila.ghazanfar@sydney.edu.au.
Ahmad Al AjamiNeurological Institute/Edinger Institute, Goethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
Najla AbassiInstitute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Benedict AnchangNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, USA.
Bérénice A BenayounLeonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Yue CaoSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Ken ChenThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
Yesid Cuesta-AstrozEscuela de Microbiología, Universidad de Antioquia, Ciudad Universitaria Calle 67 No 12 53-108, Medellín, Colombia.
Zachary DeBruineSchool of Computing, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, 49401, USA.
Calliope A DendrouNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Iwijn De VlaminckMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Katharina ImkellerNeurological Institute/Edinger Institute, Goethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
Ilya KorsunskyHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Alex R LedererLaboratory of Brain Development and Biological Data Science, School of Life Sciences, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jessica Jingyi LiDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Computational Medicine, and, Department of Human Genetics , University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Pieter MeysmanAdrem Data Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Clint L MillerDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Kerry A MullanAdrem Data Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Uwe OhlerMax Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
Pratibha PanwarSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Nikolaos PatikasThe Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
Jonas SchuckNeurological Institute/Edinger Institute, Goethe University, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
Jacqueline H Y SiuNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Timothy J TricheDepartment of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
Alex TsankovIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
Sander W van der LaanDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Masanao YajimaBoston University, Boston, USA.
Jean YangSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Fabio ZaniniSchool of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
Ivana JelicChan Zuckerberg Initiative, Redwood City, USA. ijelic@chanzuckerberg.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The field of single-cell biology is growing rapidly, generating large amounts of data from a variety of species, disease conditions, tissues, and organs. Coordinated efforts such as CZI CELLxGENE, HuBMAP, Broad Institute Single Cell Portal, and DISCO allow researchers to access large volumes of curated datasets, including more than just scRNA-seq data. These resources have created an opportunity to build and expand the computational biology ecosystem to develop tools necessary for data reuse and for extracting novel biological insights. We highlight achievements made so far, areas where further development is needed, and specific challenges that need to be overcome.

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Atlases as TopicComputational BiologySingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsDatabases, GeneticHumans

Identifiers

PMID41116172
PMCPMC12536537

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