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

life science ontology

Links

Homepage OBO @cellosaurus

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 7 mappings to external registries for cellosaurus with 4 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE cellosaurus:0440 is used to demonstrate the provides available for cellosaurus. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.