The Pig Atlas Project was initiated by Associate Professor Yonglun Luo and Professor Lars Bolund, from the Lars Bolund Institute of Regenerative Medicine (LBI, BGI-Research and Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University; Professor Mathias Uhlen, from the Human Protein Atlas and the SciLifeLab; and Professor Huanming Yang, from BGI-Research. The aim of this project is to gain better genomic and biomedical insights into pig gene expression, cell and organs functions using the next generation sequencing technologies. The biomedical aim of this project is to facilitate the application of pigs in biomedicine.
The brain-wide classification of protein-coding gene expression has been released in 20201. The brain-wide RNA editing landscape was released in 20212. The body-wide classification of pig gene expression (based on bulk RNA sequencing) specificity and distribution has been released in 20223. The latest organ-wide profiling of pig cell heterogeneity and gene expression is now released in Q2 of 2022 (submitted for publication).