Submitting Publications

The HTAN Data Coordinating Center (DCC) supports HTAN Center publications in the following ways:

All access-controlled data is submitted under the same dbGAP Accession Study Number: phs002371.
The HTAN Portal serves as the main data access site. It can be referenced by its Research Resource Identifier (RRID): https://scicrunch.org/resolver/SCR_023364/.
Recommended data availability language is provided on this page.
After a manuscript is published, an HTAN Center can work with the DCC to create a Publication Page on the HTAN Portal. A Publication Page provides links to all data used in the publication.

In order to support data sharing and public data access, the DCC encourages authors using HTAN data to either:

use HTAN identifiers in their publication; or
provide a lookup table in the publication to map publication identifiers to HTAN identifiers.

If you are planning a publication, please notify your Data Liaison as early as possible to ensure data release planning can best accommodate publication timelines.

Please note: The DCC does not issue Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for a specific publication or study level datasets.

Citations and Data Availability Statements

Citations

Please reference both the HTAN Data portal RRID (SCR_023364) and the HTAN DCC manuscript.

RRID: https://scicrunch.org/resolver/SCR_023364/
HTAN DCC Manuscript: de Bruijn, I., Nikolov, M., Lau, C. et al. Sharing data from the Human Tumor Atlas Network through standards, infrastructure and community engagement. Nat Methods (2025). Nat Methods: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02643-0.

Controlled Access Data

Recommended Data Availability Statement -- Controlled Access Data

{X data, e.g. Primary sequencing data, etc.} generated for this study are available through dbGaP under accession number phs002371 as part of the Human Tumor Atlas Network consortium. Data can be accessed via the HTAN Data Portal (https://humantumoratlas.org/).

Open Access Data

Recommended Data Availability Statement -- Open Access Data

{Y data, e.g. scRNA-sequencing count matrices} generated for this study are stored in Synapse and can be accessed via the HTAN Data Portal (https://humantumoratlas.org/).

Data not submitted to HTAN

All data funded by HTAN should be submitted to the HTAN DCC. However, if a publication includes non-HTAN data which was submitted to a different repository, the following language can be used.

Modified Data Availability Statement (non-HTAN data)

{X, e.g. Primary bulk DNA sequencing, etc.} data generated for this study are available through dbGaP under accession number phs002371 as part of the Human Tumor Atlas Network consortium. Data can be accessed via the HTAN Data Portal (https://humantumoratlas.org/).

{Y, e.g. Bulk RNA-sequencing} data are deposited at {repository and accession id, e.g. NCBI GEO (accession GSE#####)}

Creating an HTAN Portal Publication Page

To facilitate data sharing and adherence to FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles, the HTAN portal provides links to specimen files used in publications. Currently, the HTAN Data Coordinating Center (DCC) faciliates this linking once provided the appropriate information by HTAN Centers. To submit publication information, HTAN Center's should contact Alex Lash at alexl@ds.dfci.harvard.edu.

To see examples of Publication Pages from HTAN Phase 1, please see the Publication Tab on the HTAN Portal Explore page