appears_in: []
contact:
  email: davidos@ebi.ac.uk
  github: dosumis
  name: David Osumi-Sutherland
  orcid: 0000-0002-7073-9172
depends_on:
- bfo
- chebi
- cl
- go
- nbo
- ncbitaxon
- omo
- pato
- pr
- ro
- so
- uberon
deprecated: false
description: Cell types that are provisionally defined by experimental techniques
  such as single cell transcriptomics rather than a straightforward & coherent set
  of properties.
download_json: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pcl.json
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pcl.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pcl.owl
example: '0011124'
example_extras: []
homepage: https://github.com/obophenotype/provisional_cell_ontology
keywords:
- anatomy
- annotation
- cell
- cell biology
- life science
- obo
- omics
- ontology
- phenomics
- sequencing assay
- single-cell multimodal omics
- transcriptomics
license: CC-BY-4.0
mappings:
  aberowl: PCL
  bioportal: PCL
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.bfcfd0
  obofoundry: pcl
  ols: pcl
  ontobee: PCL
  wikidata.entity: Q113014435
name: Provisional Cell Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: PCL
prefix: pcl
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1101/2021.10.10.463703
  title: Brain Data Standards - A method for building data-driven cell-type ontologies
  year: 2021
- doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01886-2
  title: Brain Data Standards - A method for building data-driven cell-type ontologies
  year: 2023
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCL_$1
repository: https://github.com/obophenotype/provisional_cell_ontology
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PCL_$1
version: '2025-07-07'
