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
Metaregistry Cellosaurus

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.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext CELLOSAURUS
Cellosaurus Cellosaurus Registry logo cellosaurus Cellosaurus
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.hkk309
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc02180
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam cellosaurus
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t cellosaurus
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100013293
RRID Research Resource Identifiers logo rrid CVCL
TogoID togoid Cellosaurus
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P3289
Providers

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.

Name Metaprefix URI
Cellosaurus cellosaurus https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_0440
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/cellosaurus:0440
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/cellosaurus:CVCL_0440
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/cellosaurus:0440
Research Resource Identifiers rrid https://scicrunch.org/resolver/RRID:CVCL_0440
Extra Providers

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

Code Name URL
legacy Legacy Endpoint https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_0440
nextprot neXtProt Cellosaurus Browser https://www.nextprot.org/term/CVCL_0440