Cellosaurus

Release 56 of #Cellosaurus is now available at www.cellosaurus.org This release contains information on 168,970 #celllines and cites 29,972 publications. In this release, new patient-derived and commercially available cell line collections.

Release 55 of #Cellosaurus is ready: 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: 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

Cellosaurus is now available in RDF format, with a triple store that supports SPARQL queries. If you want to test it, we have 70 example queries that you can use and modify: api.cellosaurus.org/sparql-editor. And explore our ontology with our new "Concept Hopper": api.cellosaurus.org/rdf-concept-...

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

Just transferred all the Cellosaurus tweets to Bluesky using the@bluemigrate.com import tool. Its a pity you can't transfer retweets but its still quite useful.

bsky.app/profile/alle... A nice image for Xmas of the cell line: www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_IR32

#Cellosaurus_authors_trivia 1: 57 authors won a Nobel prize, 33 Breakthrough, 136 Gairdner, 21 Japan, 48 Jeantet, 82 Lasker & 47 WarrenAlpert. That adds up to 424 prizes but only 253 distinct individuals as 3 got 5 prizes, 9:4, 33:3 & 66:2. Perfectly illustrating the adage "Winning begets winning"

We are processing the Cellosaurus reference records to replace the authors 1st names initials by their full name. With ~104000 different authors cited in ~29000 publications it is a challenge as in the 1950-80s full names were not often used. We will post a thread of #Cellosaurus_authors_trivia

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

This is the first post on BlueSky for the #Cellosaurus knowledge resource on #celllines at www.cellosaurus.org

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

Leonard Hayflick, renowned for his groundbreaking discovery of the Hayflick limit, passed away on August 1 at the age of 96. See our post on the #Cellosaurus page on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource_death-of-leonard-hayflick-leonard-hayflick-activity-7247656...

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.

First LinkedIn post in a series of scientists cited in #Cellosaurus that also moonlight as artists or musicians (#cellosaurus_artmus): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7211301926733234176

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 ( has submitted to #Cellosaurus information on 386 iPSCs that are highly important for the study of Parkinson’s onset & progression. You can search for these #celllines with:

As you are well aware, X/Twitter is not what it used to be ... So in addition to our Mastodon feed we have now created a "showcase" page in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource/?viewAsMember=true We will use it to post news on the #Cellosaurus and on #celllin...

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 and improvements to the XML format

The videos for the presentations given at our "Cell lines in the 21st century symposium" are now available on YouTube, They are listed on our educational resource page: https://www.cellosaurus.org/educational_resources.html

Release 48 of #Cellosaurus contains an entry https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_D4A4 for the 1st sponge #cellline which was recently established from Geodia barretti (see image from Wikipedia) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-32394-x

The #Cellosaurus files are growing bigger at each release & we are now past the file size limit (100 Mb) of GitHub. Thus we will no longer update the Cellosaurus on that platform. Users that want access to old releases can do so on @Yareta_UNIGE https://yareta.unige.ch/home/search?search=sear...

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

The #Cellosaurus wishes all its users a very happy end of year holiday season (Image credit: DALL·E 3).

A last post before Xmas about our #cellline symposium on Jan 11 in Lausanne: https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century As we are not fully booked we offer a Xmas present: enter the discount code CHRISTMAS and benefit from a 20% reduction on the registration fee

We are extending the registration deadline for our symposium "Cell lines in the 21st century" (Jan, 11 2024 in Lausanne): https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century So don't hesitate to register and please retweet! #cellline #conference

Did you know that five goldfish #celllines https://www.cellosaurus.org/search?query=Masahito were established in the 1980s by a Japanese cancer research group that included Masahito, Prince Hitachi the younger brother of the previous Emperor of Japan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahito,_Princ...

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?

If you are in Switzerland on Jan 11 2024, join us for our symposium 'Cell Lines in the 21st Century' https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century with an impressive list of speakers (see below)

After English and German, there is now an entry on the #Cellosaurus in the Czech Wikipedia: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellosaurus

With the continuous growth in number of cell lines and depth of content, the text version of release 47 is now over 100 Mb (101.8 Mb) and the XML over 400 Mb (422 Mb). Compared to the 1st release in 2012 this represents a 100x increase!

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, GeneCopoeia and Ubigene

KS-EMPD-1 (will be CVCL_C4LP), the first extramammary Paget’s disease #cellline. See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37432591/

Found a nice "fake" twitter account for Mary Kubicek @marykubicekNHS, the lab assistant of George Otto Gey. It has been created by high school students studying the story of the HeLa #cellline

Information on the anatomical site where a #cellline has been sampled has been completely enhanced & is now linked to the UBERON (@uberanat) ontology. Cell type information has been also standardized & linked to the CL ontology. Currently we make use of 803 UBERON & 241 CL terms

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.

The #Cellosaurus paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5945021/ has reached over 400 citations. Thank you for citing this paper when using the resource

See on our Mastodon feed a post (too long for Twitter) on why the 1972 paper describing snake #cellline OpC-79 ( is interesting: https://fediscience.org/@cellosaurus/110537285737708063

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)

Nice @Addgene blog entry on HEK293: https://blog.addgene.org/what-the-hek

Interesting paper: "Cancer researchers’ perceptions of the importance of the sex of cell lines, animals, and human samples for cancer biology research" https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042%2823%2900289-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS25890042230...

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

Today in the #Cellosaurus we have reached 4000 different sequence variations linked to #ClinVar (@NCBI_Clinical) or #dbSNP There are an additional 2450 variants not linked to these two resources. Globally these variations concern 1100 different human genes.

The #Cellosaurus site ( underwent a facelift: it is still tuned to be as efficient and effective as possible in providing information but now includes a menu bar and is adapted to smaller screens (phones and tablets).

In a recent review on insect #celllines ( 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%

A new dog mammary gland carcinoma #cellline CMT-1: https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-023-03573-9 but there is already a CMT-1 cell line from dog and from same cancer. Another example how reviewers and publishers (here @BMC) fail to do their homework

#BehindCellLines #13: BRO #cellline https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_7036 seems to have been established by Arnold Lockshin a US researcher who defected with his wife in 1986 to the USSR. More on this fascinating story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Lockshin https://apnews.com/article/340e...