Virtual Embryo Atlas

Developmental timeline

TS1 (fertilized egg) → P56 (adult) · click a stage to load samples

Timeline Modality

TS16

E10· Forelimb buds

Limb buds visible. Lens placode invaginates. Neural tube fully closed.

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0/5anatomy delineated

OPT · 5Optical Projection Tomography — a 3D scan of a chemically cleared embryo, captured by rotating it through 360° in a wide-field microscope. Isotropic voxels; raw bg = dark, tissue = bright. sci-RNA-seq3 · 1sci-RNA-seq3 — high-throughput single-nucleus combinatorial-indexing RNA-seq (Shendure lab). The OMG mouse prenatal time-lapse profiled 11.4M nuclei across 45 developmental bins from E8 to P0 with this protocol.

Transcriptomics data · 1

Stage-matched · not registered to atlas anatomy

Mouse prenatal time-lapse · whole atlas · TS16

Mouse prenatal time-lapse · whole atlas

11,441,407 cells · 45,525 genes (full atlas)

Single-cell · pre-filtered to TS16 · spans 16 stages

Qiu et al., Nature 2024 (OMG)

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Histology plates · 64

Kaufman atlas, EMAPA-annotated · scroll →

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scRNA-seq · Literature · Predictions — coming soon

TS15

13–20 somites

About Theiler staging

Karl Theiler's staging system (1972) partitions prenatal development into 28 morphologically distinct steps. Virtual Embryo aligns all imagery, anatomy, and future spatial transcriptomics data to this axis.

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