The integrated Human Lung Cell Atlas (HLCA) represents the first large-scale, integrated single-cell reference atlas of the human lung. It consists of over 2 million cells from the respiratory tract of 486 individuals, and includes 49 different datasets. It is split into the HLCA core, and the extended or full HLCA. The HLCA core includes data of healthy lung tissue from 107 individuals, and includes manual cell type annotations based on consensus across 6 independent experts, as well as demographic, biological and technical metadata. The datasets in the HLCA core were integrated using scANVI. The HLCA core can be used as a reference to map new datasets onto using scArches. The full HLCA includes 35 further datasets that include donors with various lung diseases. These datasets were mapped onto the core with scArches, and include disease annotations as well as cell type annotations transferred from the HLCA core onto the mapped datasets. Note that while the the HLCA includes an integrated, batch-correctd low-dimensional embedding, the gene counts themselves were not batch-corrected. Detailed information about all metadata in the objects, as well as further HLCA-related information , can be found on the HLCA landing page: https://github.com/LungCellAtlas/HLCA.
