HuBMAP Y3:Q1 Demo Day

Time & Date

10:30am - 6:00pm EDT, September 21-22, 2020

Goals

This meeting focused on cell segmentation, cell annotation, and nomenclature. We started with a retrospective of the 1st Portal Release and then planned Portal Releases for the coming two years.

Participants


Portrait: Hub Group

All HuBMAP members (HIVE, TMCs, TTDs, RTIs, NIH, and external advisors) were invited to actively participate. Breakout session moderators covered technical and biomedical expertise. Invited talks were advertised to the larger scientific community, live feed was broadcast online, recorded and made available after the event.

Location

This was a virtual event hosted by MC-IU at Indiana University.

Invited Speakers


Portrait: Alexander Diehl

Alexander D. Diehl, Ph.D.

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Portrait: Amy Bernard

Amy Bernard, Ph.D.

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Local Organizers from MC-IU Team

Members of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS) at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University.

Portrait: Katy Börner

Katy Börner

Director, CI for Network Science Center (CNS)

Portrait: Lisel Record

Lisel Record

CNS Associate Director

Portrait: Matthew Martindale

Matthew Martindale

CNS Center Assistant

Portrait: Medina Sydykanova

Medina Sydykanova

CNS Project Support Specialist

Portrait: Medina Sydykanova

Andreas Bueckle

PhD Candidate in Information Science,
CNS Research Assistant

Agenda

All times were in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

September 21, 2020


The first day focused on a debrief of the 1st HuBMAP Portal release in the morning followed by a discussion and planning session for the 2nd HuBMAP Portal release including a longer-range discussion of portal features. Goals were to sketch out a tentative roadmap for the next 2+ years for data and code releases.

10:30am Welcome by Richard Conroy (NIH) and Katy Börner (IU)
10:45am Setting the Stage: Technical Retrospective and HIVE Y3 Plans
  • 1st Portal Release Retrospective (what worked/did not work)
  • Y3 key deliverables and planned collaborations
    • Jonathan Silverstein, IEC
    • Ziv Bar- Joseph, TC-CMU
    • Rahul Satija and Tommaso Biancalani, MC-NYGC
    • Katy Börner, MC-IU
    • Nils Gehlenborg, TC-HMS
12:00pm Lunch Break / Posters and Videos
  • Poster 1: Building a chemical atlas of the human kidney with multimodal molecular imaging - Elizabeth Neumann (TMC)
  • Poster 2: R2UI: Stage 2 Registration User Interface for HuBMAP for Accurate Spatial Registration of Tissue Blocks and Associated Cells and Biomarkers Within 3D Organ Models - Ellen Quardokus (MC-IU), Andreas Bueckle (MC-IU)
  • Poster 3: Mapping of Voxel, Vector, and Meta Datasets - Elizabeth Record (MC-IU)
  • Poster 4: 3D Tissue Reconstruction and Segmentation In Support of CCF Design - Yousef Al-Kofahi (RTI-GE) & Yingnan Ju (MC-IU)
  • Poster 5: Starfish Spatial Transcriptomics Pipeline, Cecilia Cisar (TC-CMU)
1:00pm Breakout Session Introduction (Peter Kant)
Breakout Session 1: Roadmap for Next 2 Years (A)
  • 1A: Driving scientific questions - Richard Conroy (NIH), Mike Snyder (TMC-Stanford)
  • 1B: New data and workflows - Matt Ruffalo (TC-CMU), Clive Wasserfall (TMC-UFL)
  • 1C: Clinical and basic science metadata - Jonathan Silverstein (IEC), Mark Musen (MC-IU)
  • 1D: Segmentation of cells and anatomical structures - Robert “Bob” Murphy (IEC), N. Heath Patterson (TMC-VU)
2:00pm Report Back
2:30pm Invited Speaker: Alexander D. Diehl, University of New York at Buffalo
The Cell Ontology and Its Role in Organizing High Dimensional Cell Type Data - Video
/ Slides
The Cell Ontology (CL) is the designated OBO Foundry ontology for the representation of cell types. While it provides upper level classes for cell types found across all of biology, the curation of the CL in recent years has been focused on vertebrate and mammalian cell types, in particular, with ontology classes developed based primarily on results from human and model organism research. Experimentally-based details about particular cell types are captured in three ways in the CL: by a descriptive term name or label, by a detailed text definition, and by logical axioms that relate a cell type class to characteristics that define that class in a necessary and sufficient matter, via logical relations to classes in outside ontologies. These axioms form the logical definition of a cell type class and capture specific details such as morphology, anatomical location, patterns of protein expression, or unique biological processes that a cell type may participate in. In recent years, the CL has proved useful in the analysis of complex biological data related to cell types. Systems have been developed that use CL logical definitions to classify flow cytometry and mass cytometry data to link cell populations identified via automated gating algorithms to cell type classes. Moreover, large scale gene expression studies such as the FANTOM 5 and ENCODE projects have used the CL to link patterns of gene expression to particular cell types and groups of cell types. And increasingly, the CL is being used as part of the analysis of scRNA seq data sets, to connect cell populations identified via clustering algorithms to known cell types and, in some cases, enable discovery of novel cell subtypes. In the HuBMAP project, the existing hierarchy and logical definitions in the CL, which in many cases include reference to anatomical locations, can be used as a means to organize cell type data taken from particular organs or tissues. The CL will prove valuable as part of tools for querying and analyses of data sets to search for differences and commonalities in gene and protein expression in similar cell types, such as epithelial cells, found in different organs.
3:30pm Break / Posters and Videos
  • Video 1: EUI -Bruce W. Herr II (MC-IU)
  • Video 2: RUI - Andreas Bueckle (MC-IU)
  • Video 3: ASCT+B Visualizer - Paul Hrishikesh (MC-IU)
4:30pm Breakout Session 2: Roadmap for Next 2 Years (B)
  • 2A: Common coordinate framework ontologies & user interfaces - Bruce W. Herr II (MC-IU), Zorina Galis (NIH)
  • 2B: Portal usability studies and UX (design process) optimization - Nils Gehlenborg (TC-HMS), Leonard Cross (MC-IU)
  • 2C: HuBMAP APIs - Gloria Pryhuber (TMC-UCSD), Robert “Bob” Murphy (IEC)
  • 2D: Building Resources to Support Portal Use - Robin Scibek (IEC), Danielle Gutierrez (TMC-VU)
5:30pm Report Back
6:00pm Adjourn

September 22, 2020


The second day featured discussions and hands-on sessions on 1) cell segmentation, 2) cell type annotation, 3) CCF, 4) outreach materials and also on HuBMAP superpowers and optimizing HIVE planning and coordination.

10:30am Invited Speaker: Amy Bernard, Allen Institute
Common Cell Type Nomenclature: Development and Application of a Systematic, Extensible Convention - Video / Slides

The recent advent of single cell RNA-sequencing and other high-throughput technologies has led to an explosion of cell type definitions across multiple organ systems. Consortia like the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), HuBMAP and the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) have begun to standardize and centralize the intake of data and associated metadata from these projects; however, the naming and organization of cell types has largely been left to individual investigators, resulting in widely varying nomenclature and limited alignment between taxonomies derived from overlapping datasets. To facilitate cross-dataset alignment and comparison, the Allen Institute created a common nomenclature convention for matching and tracking cell types across studies. The Common Cell type Nomenclature (CCN) is qualitatively similar to gene transcript management across different versions of GENCODE genome builds, allowing comparison of matched types with a defined reference or taxonomy. The CCN presents a framework that augments but does not change existing cell type names in existing publications and can be directly applied to data from new or established studies. The CCN was applied to diverse cell type datasets derived from mammalian brain generated by the Allen Institute, based on multiple quantifiable modalities. The CCN facilitates assigning accurate yet flexible cell type names in the mammalian cortex as a step towards community-wide efforts to organize multi-source, data-driven information related to cell type taxonomies from any organ system or organism.
11:30am Live demos of data, workflows, and tools that become available in Y3
Register using poster/video registration form
  • Demo 1: The Making of the Visible Human Massive Open Online Course - Engaging a Broader Audience in HuBMAP with the Power of Video - Andreas Bueckle (MC-IU)
  • Demo 2: HuBMAP Data Portal: UI + Visualization - Nils Gehlenborg (TC-HMS)
  • Demo 3: Lightsheet Microscopy - Seth Currlin (TMC-UFL)
  • Demo 4: HuBMAP Portal - Leonard Cross
  • Demo 5: Overview of ingest_validation_tools for TMCs - Chuck McCallum (TC-Harvard)
1:00pm Lunch Break
1:30pm Breakout Session 3: Unique HuBMAP Superpowers
  • 3A: Spatial and semantic data collection, registration, and integrating via common coordinate framework and 3D Atlas - Rahul Satija (MC-NYGC), Katy Börner (MC-IU)
  • 3B: Diverse types of data and how it can be anchored / integrated and harmonized for analysis and visualization - Raf Van de Plas (TMC-VU), Joana Gonçalves (TMC)
  • 3C: Segmenting, annotating, and visualizing multimodal data - Nils Gehlenborg (TC-HMS), Jeff Spraggins (TMC-VU)
  • 3D: Interoperable FAIR (meta)data and open APIs - Bill Shirey (IEC), Ajay Pillai (NIH)
2:30pm Report Back
3:00pm Breakout Session 4: Optimizing Planning & Coordination
  • 4A: Within HIVE - Peter Kant (IEC), Tyler Best (NIH)
  • 4B: Within HuBMAP - Aaron Horning (TMC-Stanford), Richard “Rich” LeDuc (RTI-NW)
  • 4C: Working With the NIH Data Ecosystem - Haluk Resat (NIH), Sanjay Jain (TMC-UCSD)
  • 4D: HuBMAP External - Nicholas “Nick” Nystrom (IEC), Sarah Teichmann (TC-CMU)
4:00pm Report Back
4:30pm Closing words
4:45pm PI Meeting, NIH is welcome to attend.
5:45pm Adjourn

Links to Posters and Videos


Posters:
  • Starfish Spatial Transcriptomics Pipeline, Cecilia Cisar (TC-CMU) - Poster
  • Mapping of Voxel, Vector, and Meta Datasets - Katy Borner (MC-IU) - Poster
Videos:
  • EUI -Bruce W. Herr II (MC-IU) - Video
  • RUI - Andreas Bueckle (MC-IU) - Video
  • ASCT+B Visualizer - Paul Hrishikesh (MC-IU) - Video

Social Media

HuBMAP twitter feed: @_hubmap
Hashtag: #HuBMAP

Acknowledgements

Event organization is funded by NIH Award OT2OD026671 and the NIH Common Fund.
Special thanks go to IU EventPro Team for supporting this event.

Contact Us

Matthew Martindale
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center Assistant
Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
812-855-9930
masmarti@iu.edu


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