HuBMAP Human Reference Atlas Hackathon
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
March 9-11, 2026
Summary
The Human Reference Atlas (HRA) is a multiscale, multimodal, three-dimensional atlas of the anatomical structures and cells in the healthy human body. The HRA provides standard terminologies and data structures for describing specimens, biological structures, and spatial positions linked to existing ontologies. This hackathon will bring together PIs, programmers, and key personnel from teams in the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP), the Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet), the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP), and the Whole Person Project (WPP) to discuss the integration of the HRA with other atlassing efforts.
Attendees
HuBMAP team photo
  • Eran Agmon, PhD, Assistant Professor, UConn Health (website)
  • Bruce J. Aronow, PhD, Professor, University of Cincinnati (website)
  • Surya Prasath, PhD, Professor, University of Cincinncati (website)
  • Feng-Yu (Leo) Yeh, MS, Software Developer and Bioinformatician, University of Michigan (Oliver He's lab) (website)
  • Michael Gargano, Senior Scientific Software Engineer, The Jackson Laboratory (website)
  • Daniel Danis, PhD, Research Scientist, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (website)
  • Rupesh Gelal, Graduate Student, University of Cincinncati
  • Pankaj Rajdeo, Graduate Student, University of Cincinncati
  • Daniel Bolin, Senior Software Developer, Indiana University (website)
  • Yashvardhan Jain, MS, Research Software Engineer, Indiana University (website)
  • Yongxin (Kiki) Kong, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University
  • Bruce W. Herr II, Technical Director, Indiana University (website)
  • Katy Börner, PhD, Center Director, Indiana University (website)
  • Andreas Bueckle, PhD, Research Lead, Indiana University (website)
Location
Intelligent Systems Engineering Department
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
700 N. Woodlawn Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
https://cns.iu.edu/visitor_info.html
Date
March 9-11, 2026
References
Goals
Results
  • Started work on a new HPO-HRA integration through the use of HRA lightweight web components on the HPO website.
  • Started connecting physiological processes and biomodels to the HRA.
  • Made progress on integrating the HRA Knowledge Graph (KG, see paper) with the Kidney Tissue Atlas Ontology (KTAO, see website)
Acknowledgements
We thank Traci Smith, Meryl S. Jacob, and Elizabeth Record at Indiana University for assistance with organizing the event.