101 - Illustrating Functional Tissue Units (FTUs) Based on Organ-specific Anatomical Structures, Cell Types and Biomarkers

Poster Board Number: 101
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Abstract Body : The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) consortium is developing tools to create an open, global atlas of the human body at the cellular level.

Part of this work includes 2D illustrations of functional tissue units (FTUs), small tissue blocks that perform a unique physiologic function. FTUs are defined by subject matter experts who have authored organ-specific, hierarchical ASCT+B (Anatomical Structures, Cell Types and Biomarkers) tables to capture known information for each organ.

The illustrations capture cell types and their visual relationships, also linked to data supplied by donor tissue blocks, and will soon be available in an interactive format that further visualizes the illustration's relationship to captured data sets.

We hope to show how FTU illustrations are created, and to welcome potential subject matter experts to review or contribute to our ongoing work.