Manual

# WELCOME

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/.

If you have feedback for this manual, including broken links or incorrect information, please submit a ticket to the HTAN Help Desk.

# Quick Start

If you are interested in data reuse, the following pages may be helpful:

Questions or problems accessing the data? Please contact us: HTAN Help Desk.

Only HTAN Members are able to contribute data to HTAN.

If you are a data contributor, the following pages may be most useful:

# Other Information

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.

Date Comment Changes summary
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