The Cellosaurus is a knowledge resource on cell lines. It attempts to describe all cell lines used in biomedical research. Its scope includes: Immortalized cell lines; naturally immortal cell lines (example: stem cell lines); finite life cell lines when those are distributed and used widely; vertebrate cell line with an emphasis on human, mouse and rat cell lines; and invertebrate (insects and ticks) cell lines. Its scope does not include primary cell lines (with the exception of the finite life cell lines described above) and plant cell lines.

Prefix

cellosaurus

Alternative Prefixes

CVCL

Keywords

cell lines controlled vocabularies life science ontologies ontology thesaurus

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO @cellosaurus@fediscience.org

Contact

Amos Bairoch   0000-0003-2826-6444   AmosBairoch

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Cellosaurus should match this regular expression:
^[A-Z0-9]{4}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0440   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Cellosaurus should match this regular expression:
^cellosaurus:[A-Z0-9]{4}$

Example CURIE

cellosaurus:0440

Namespace Embedded in LUI

This resource has been annotated by the Bioregistry as having a potential namespace embedded in LUI. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For Cellosaurus, the banana looks like CVCL_. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like CVCL_0440 (instead of the canonical form 0440) and CURIEs for this resource that look like cellosaurus:CVCL_0440 (instead of the canonical form cellosaurus:0440). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2019 CLASTR: The Cellosaurus STR similarity search tool - A precious help for cell line authentication
• 2018 The Cellosaurus, a Cell-Line Knowledge Resource

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for this resource with 6 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0440 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Cellosaurus. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.