A Human Cytome Project ?

Hi,

I was wondering if there is already something going on to set up a sort of
"Human Cytome Project" ? In my opinion the hardware and most of the
software seems to be avaialable to set up such a project ? For the
cellular level, light-microscopy based reader technology would be very
interesting to use ?

Studying and mapping the genome, transcriptome and proteome at the
organisational level of the cell for various celltypes and organ models
could provide us with a lot of information of what actually goes on in
organisms in the spatio-spectro-temporal space ?

I have been thinking (working) about a concept which could provide the
basic framework for exploring and managing this cellular level of
biological organisation research on a large scale, but I would like to
know if there is already some thought/work going on in the direction of
setting up an initiative such as a "Human Cytome Project" ?

This is just an idea, so I am really interested to hear if there is
something in it, or even if it is not worth while what I just wrote.

Best regards,

Peter Van Osta

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Peter Van Osta wrote:


What's a cytome? The name suggests the set of all cells, or possibly cell
types, in an organism; is that what you mean?

tom

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Tom Anderson, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL

Hi,

Here are some links to websites with information about Cytomics, this will
provide you with some information and background about what I mean with a
"Human Cytome Project" (see below in this email).

I got the idea about using massive parallel "readers" on a
"high-throughput" backbone for Cytomics while I visited the Sanger Center
a few years ago where I saw a huge room "buzzing" with DNA-sequencing
machines.

I wanted to design and develop a cell-screening system, based on a
microscopy-based reader which could do for Cytomics what DNA-sequencing
machines did for Genomics.

Websites on Cytomics:

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Best regards,

Peter Van Osta

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Hi,

As my original post on "A Human Cytome Project ?" on Monday 1 Dec 2003
seems to have generated quite a lot of interest in the scientific
community, I decided to put a copy with some expanation on my personal
website too:

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I hope to elucidate my ideas a bit more in the near future, but I am on a
tight schedule to get my professional work done, so it may take a while
before I can put something together for publication on my website.

Regards,

Peter Van Osta

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