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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Organism-scale annotation with Pan-human Azimuth.

Sourav Sarkar, Zhuoyan Li, Gesmira Molla, Anagha Shenoy, Brian Zhang, David Collins, Nicole Vasilevsky, Joseph P Gaut, Aleix Puig-Barbe, Andreas Bueckle and 4 more

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Sourav SarkarNew York Genome Center.ORCID 0000-0001-9474-5457
Zhuoyan LiNew York Genome Center.ORCID 0009-0002-3486-5785
Gesmira MollaNew York Genome Center.ORCID 0000-0002-8628-5056
Anagha ShenoyNew York Genome Center.ORCID 0000-0002-0537-6862
Brian ZhangNew York Genome Center.
David CollinsNew York Genome Center.
Nicole VasilevskyCritical Path Institute.ORCID 0000-0001-5208-3432
Joseph P GautDepartment of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine.ORCID 0000-0002-9580-3951
Aleix Puig-BarbeEuropean Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI.ORCID 0000-0001-6677-8489
Andreas BueckleCyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University.ORCID 0000-0002-8977-498X
David Osumi-SutherlandWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus.ORCID 0000-0002-7073-9172
Katy BörnerCyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, Indiana University.ORCID 0000-0002-3321-6137
Sanjay JainDivision of Nephrology, Washington University School of Medicine.ORCID 0000-0003-2804-127X
Rahul SatijaNew York Genome Center.ORCID 0000-0001-9448-8833

Funding

SenNet Supplement - Consortium BenchmarkingU24CA268108 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Philip D. Blood, JONATHAN C. SILVERSTEIN · 2021 to 2026
$22.1M
Kidney single cell and spatial molecular atlas project - KIDSSMAPU54DK134301 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JAIN, SANJAY · 2022 to 2025
$7.8M
3D Multiscale Biomolecular Human Reference Atlas Construction, Visualization and Usage [4 of 5]OT2OD033756 · OD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI BORNER, KATY · 2022 to 2025
$7.4M
Comprehensive reference atlas construction, geolocation and data integration for HuBMAP HIVE [5 of 5]OT2OD033760 · OD · NEW YORK GENOME CENTER · PI SATIJA, RAHUL · 2022 to 2025
$6.1M
The Human Body Atlas: High-Resolution, Functional Mapping of Voxel, Vector, and Meta DatasetsOT2OD026671 · OD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI BORNER, KATY · 2018 to 2021
$3.5M
Amplifying the Value of HuBMAP Data Through Data Interoperability and CollaborationOT2OD030545 · OD · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI BLOOD, PHILIP D., BORNER, KATY · 2020 to 2023
$3.1M
3D Human Reference Body: Multiscale Exploration and Visualization of Biomolecular Data in Virtual RealityR03OD039970 · OD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI BUECKLE, ANDREAS · 2025 to 2025
$317k
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA268108NIDDK NIH HHS U54 DK134301NIH HHS OT2 OD026671NIH HHS OT2 OD030545NIH HHS OT2 OD033756NIH HHS OT2 OD033760NIH HHS R03 OD039970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell atlases now span many human tissues, but inconsistent annotations across studies limit their utility as a unified reference. We introduce Pan-human Azimuth, a supervised neural network that maps human cells from diverse tissues and datasets onto a single hierarchical organism-scale typology. Developed through NIH HuBMAP, the model is trained on a uniquely curated corpus designed to maximize diversity across tissues and technologies while enforcing uniform, interpretable annotations and stringent quality control. The use of a single organism-wide reference enables us to map tens of millions of cells in the Tabula Sapiens and scBaseCamp repositories, perform cross-tissue comparisons across thousands of samples, and identify striking tissue specialization among fibroblast states. Pan-human Azimuth naturally extends to annotating spatial transcriptomic data, recovering canonical kidney cortical structures and distinguishing glomerular states consistent with expert pathology. We release Pan-human Azimuth alongside cloud, R, and Python interfaces to facilitate standardized organism-wide single-cell analysis.

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PMCPMC13419436

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