
This is the official web portal for The Stem Cell Genome Anatomy Project (SCGAP) that is initiated by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Seven groups were funded to form a research consortium under the auspices of NIH's Cooperative Agreement (RFA-DK-02-027), effective October 1, 2002. The aims of this consortium are to collectively develop necessary biological procedures and reagents for characterization of tissue specific progenitor cells and to characterize gene expression patterns in these cells using advanced technologies and bioinformatic techniques.
At the present time, the goals of this website are to deliver the progress overview of the consortium's research efforts and to function as a gateway to the websites of the consortium participants. As such, the detailed data, protocols and descriptions are accessible from the respective website of the participating GAP projects. The websites of these seven groups are readily accessible from the left-hand side of this home page. Participants information, consortium news, activities, commonly available resource information, etc. are available from this website.

