What can you get from it?
The DGEMap project finished in July 2009 but activities are continuing via the Human Developmental Studies Network (HUDSEN). Please visit the HUDSEN website with links to the electronic atlas of the developing human brain and human spatial gene expression database for the latest resources and information. These web pages have been left up as a record only.
Want to have access to our services?
You might want to use the existing service and submit your own project to HDBR or learn more about the gene expression data at various stages of development already stored in our database. In both cases, visit the corresponding websites.
One of the databases on which DGEMap will build its own facility is the Electronic Atlas of the developing brain (This became the HUDSEN EADHB in July 2009).
EADHB is a digital atlas and a gene expression database covering all developmental stages during the major period of brain organogenesis. The atlas framework is provided by a series of computer-based 3D reconstructions of each developmental stage which is annotated and linked to an anatomical database.
This work is being carried out in collaboration with Richard Baldock and Duncan Davidson at the MRC Human Genetics Unit , Edinburgh and Luis Puelles at the University of Murcia, Spain.
You can learn more about these services by visiting their respective websites.
Want to contribute?
What DGEMap would like to achieve is the linking of more resource centres with more databases to offer the scientific community an opportunity to reach a complete picture of the developing human and its gene expression.
The objective is to create a critical mass of people willing to improve the human gene expression map, to link centres of excellence and to exploit more efficiently the comparison between species.
If you feel that you or your organisation might contribute to the work in progress and/or to the design of this future research infrastructure, do not hesitate to contact us directly.