#cellosaurus — Public Fediverse posts

Release 55 of #Cellosaurus is ready: https://www.cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 167'186 #celllines and cite 29'959 publications.

Release 54 of #Cellosaurus is ready: www.cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 167'127 #celllines and cite 29'935 publications.

Release 53 of #Cellosaurus is ready: https://www.cellosaurus.org/
It contains information regarding 165'949 #celllines and cite 29'655 publications. Author name representation has changed from listing the surname followed by initials to a full-name format that spells out the given name(s) in full

First talk of the day at #ISMBECCB2025, keynote from Amos Bairoch "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: from #SwissProt to #Cellosaurus, 40 years of #biocuration" https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/programme-agenda/distinguished-keynotes#bairoch

💡 Want to make the most of cell line data? Join this #BC2Basel tutorial to explore Cellosaurus, from ontologies to APIs to real-world use cases.

🔹Taught by Amos Bairoch & Pierre-André Michel (SIB).

📅 Mon 8 Sep at #bc2

👉Register: tinyurl.com/5n8w3pwb

#bioinformatics #Cellosaurus #celllines #lifesciences #FAIRdata

Release 52 of #Cellosaurus is ready: https://cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 163'868 #celllines and cite 29'267 publications.

Release 51 of #Cellosaurus is ready: https://cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 161'202 #celllines and cite 28'637 publications.

See our Linkedin post on how the #Cellosaurus now cross-reference to FPBase to indicate the fluorescent protein(s) integrated in a #cellline: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource_fpbase-the-fluorescent-protein-database-activity-7252433521607077888-GOkD

Release 50 of #Cellosaurus is ready: https://www.cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 159461 #celllines and cite 28313 publications.
Highlights of this release: complete reannotation of genetic integration (formerly "transfected") field.

A new #Cellosaurus "group" comment was introduced a few months ago: "Malaria research cell line". It allows to efficently retrieve the list of #celllines useful for the study of this disease: https://www.cellosaurus.org/search?query=%22Malaria%20research%20cell%20line%22

The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) (https://www.ppmi-info.org/)
has submitted to the #Cellosaurus information regarding 386 iPSCs that are highly important for the study of Parkinson’s onset and progression. You can search for these #celllines using the following query pattern: https://www.cellosaurus.org/search?query=%22(PPMI)%22

Release 49 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 153642 #celllines and cite 27882 publications. Highlights of this release: introduction of plant #celllines, improvements to the XML format.

Release 48 of #Cellosaurus contains an entry https://cellosaurus.org/CVCL_D4A4 for the first sponge #cellline which was recently established from Geodia barretti (see image from Wikipedia) https://nature.com/articles/s41598-023-32394-x

Release 48 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 152231 #celllines and cite 27418 publications. Highlights of this release: new cross-references to BioGRID_ORCS and DSHB.

@ECACC has a new version of its web site and its #celllines product pages now include links to the #Cellosaurus Example: https://www.culturecollections.org.uk/nop/product/1411h A big thank you!

Today, we have reached an important milestone: 150,000 #celllines entries in the #Cellosaurus
Who will be the 1st one to guess the meaning of the color stripes in the illustration below?

Release 47 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 148681 #celllines and cite 26994 publications. Highlight of this release: new cross-references to cancercelllines.org, GeneCopoeia and Ubigene

Release 46 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 146062 #celllines and cite 26479 publications. Highlight of this release: enhancement of info on anatomical origin (tissues/organs) and cell type of cell lines.

A very significant milestone for the #Cellosaurus: there are now 10,000 papers that have cited one or more Cellosaurus #cellline Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID)

Release 45 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 145368 #celllines and cite 26279 publications. #celllines #bioinformatics #biocuration

In a recent review on insect #celllines (https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/14/2/104#B16-insects-14-00104) there is a graphical analysis of the proportion of different insect orders contributing to #Cellosaurus insect cell lines. Not suprisingly lepidoptera and diptera contribute for over 91% of these cell lines

Kondo's group continues to develop #celllines for rare sarcomas (will be CVCL_C7G0 in next #Cellosaurus release): Establishment and characterization of NCC-DSM1-C1: a novel cell line derived from a patient with desmoid fibromatosis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36629983/

I asked ChatGPT to create a mission statement for #Cellosaurus. What it came up with is so good that I am both awed and scared by the power of such language models! #AI #cellline

The #Cellosaurus wishes all of its users an happy new year. #celllines #happy2023

In addition to the "Virology" field, two new comment fields were introduced in #Cellosaurus Rel.44: "Senescence" and "Donor information". Example: https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_ZT99 #cellline

Release 44 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 144568 #celllines and cite 25963 publications. Since last release (Sep 22) 2689 entries were created and 11206 updated.