Cellosaurus

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.

Because conferences abstracts or posters even when published in a journal covered by PubMed are not indexed by PubMed

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.

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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

Find the answer in the following LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amosbairoch_on-nov-24-i-asked-why-is-it-possible-to-activity-7138874044585533441-aEGz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Can you answer the riddle: Why can we state that there is ~7900 km between a contaminated cell line and an authenticated one? Prize: either a free registration to the symposium https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century or a giant (4.5 kg) @Toblerone Reply to cellosaurus@sib.swiss u...

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