The HTAN Manual provides an overview of Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) data, including details regarding data access and data contribution. If you have any questions regarding the manual or HTAN data, please contact us: HTAN Help Desk.
The manual can be found at https://docs.humantumoratlas.org/.
==- Manual Feedback or Corrections? If you have feedback for this manual, including broken links or incorrect information, please submit a ticket to the HTAN Help Desk.
==- I am a data user If you are interested in data reuse, the following pages may be helpful:
- What is HTAN?
- How is HTAN Data structured?
- Do Phase 1 and Phase 2 HTAN data differ?
- How can I explore HTAN data?
- How do I obtain a copy of the HTAN data?
Questions or problems accessing the data? Please contact us: HTAN Help Desk.
==- I am a data contributor (HTAN Members only) Only HTAN Members are able to contribute data to HTAN.
If you are a data contributor, the following pages may be most useful:
- What do I need to do before I submit data? (pre-submission tasks)
- What are the file requirements for data submission?
- What metadata is required for data submission?
- Can dates be submitted to HTAN?
- What genomic references should be used for sequencing data? ===
==- Authors Written by the HTAN Data Coordinating Center (DCC), with contributions from Adam Taylor, Clarisse Lau, Vésteinn Thorsson, Ino de Bruijn, David Gibbs, Ethan Cerami, Alex Lash and Jen Altreuter.
==- Content Updates
| Date | Comment | Changes summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | New data submission pages | Addition phase 2 assay pages to support R8 data submissions. |
| 2026-02-20 | Seventh version of the manual | Major revisions and reorganization |
| 2026-01-16 | Sixth version of the manual | Phase 2 data and metadata submission details and links |
| 2025-12-12 | Fifth version of manual | Removal of Phase 1 data submission details; Additional details regarding Phase 2 data model and submission process. |
| 2025-04-28 | Updates to reflect CDS name change to General Commons (GC) | |
| 2025-03-21 | Fourth version of manual | Rework of Data Access Sections and creation of Data Visualization section |
| 2025-03-10 | Updated Identifier sections to reflect Phase 2 schema | |
| 2025-03-04 | Added gen3 data access instructions | |
| 2025-02-11 | Added DMSA v1.1 and DMSA Appendix A | |
| 2024-10-17 | Added Phase 2 centers and data liaisons, HTAN Dashboard Page | |
| 2024-10-04 | Added FAQ, Governance, HTAN Usage Statistics | |
| 2024-07-12 | Updates to Data Access to reflect CDS/CGC changes | |
| 2024-04-01 | Third version of manual | Simplified Data Model section; added "Submitting Data" and "Additional Information" Sections |
| 2023-06-01 | Second version of manual | |
| 2022-09-28 | First version of manual | |
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