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I'd say you're pushing from flippant to disrespectful on the who and how of this being done. Starting with you've got Addenbrooks and Guangzhou hospitals collec
by Ultimatt 3y ago
I'd say you're pushing from flippant to disrespectful on the who and how of this being done. Starting with you've got Addenbrooks and Guangzhou hospitals collecting the foetal material that will have been lovingly donated from some of the most distressed members of the British and Chinese population. The pipeline although commodity came from a new startup Enhanc3D Genomics Ltd (inc. 2020). Over 15 labs worked collaboratively to build the atlas of results, because the expense in human time alone far exceeds what could be done in a single lab.
- tetris11 3y agoI am being flippant I suppose, but it is also so incredibly easy to publish such works when you have the money of an entire consortium behind you. Also, how are these datasets to be shared? In some of the sets I've worked with, I've had to reintegrate subsets myself because though the authors published the embeddings of their data (e.g. cell1 is at position X and Y on PC1 and PC2), they flat out refused to publish the loadings (e.g. PC1 is made up of GeneX, GeneY, ...) making it obscenely hard to project your own data on to these reference Atlas's. Yes, I'm disillusioned in general when I see these papers.