Correction to: Nature Cell Biologyhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-023-01194-w. Published online 19 July 2023. In the version of this article originally published, the name of Tianyang Xu was misspelled as Tiangyang Xu. The name has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) aims to create a multi-scale spatial atlas of the healthy human body at single-cell resolution by applying advanced technologies and disseminating resources to the community. As the HuBMAP moves past its first phase, creating ontologies, protocols and pipelines, this Perspective introduces the production phase: the generation of reference spatial maps of functional tissue units across many organs from diverse populations and the creation of mapping tools and infrastructure to advance biomedical research.