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An ontology for cell types

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Bard, Jonathan, Rhee, Seung Y, Ashburner, Michael·2005·Genome biology
DOI 10.1186/gb-2005-6-2-r21PMC PMC551541
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We describe an ontology for cell types that covers the prokaryotic, fungal, animal and plant worlds. It includes over 680 cell types. These cell types are classified under several generic categories and are organized as a directed acyclic graph. The ontology is available in the formats adopted by the Open Biological Ontologies umbrella and is designed to be used in the context of model organism genome and other biological databases. The ontology is freely available at http://obo.sourceforge.net/ and can be viewed using standard ontology visualization tools such as OBO-Edit and COBrA.

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Figure 1 A screenshot of the cell ontology, as seen within the OBO-Edit program, displaying all the information associated with the term hepatocyte. The left-hand panel shows all the top-level terms, together with the location of hepatocyte within the cell_by_histology classification. The right-hand panel shows all the hierarchies within which hepatocyte can be found. The top part of the central panel illustrates how the term is found, while the lower part gives the definition, the unique Cell Ontology ID and the MESH ID.
Figure 1 A screenshot of the cell ontology, as seen within the OBO-Edit program, displaying all the information associated with the term hepatocyte. The left-hand panel shows all the top-level terms, together with the location of hepatocyte within the cell_by_histology classification. The right-hand panel shows all the hierarchies within which hepatocyte can be found. The top part of the central panel illustrates how the term is found, while the lower part gives the definition, the unique Cell Ontology ID and the MESH ID.CC BY · PubMed Central

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Authors
Bard, J., Rhee, S. Y., & Ashburner, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
  • Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
Corresponding author
Ashburner, Michael
ORCID
Venue
Genome biology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2005-01-14
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
R21-R21
ISSN
  • 1465-6906 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-760X
DOI
10.1186/gb-2005-6-2-r21
PMC
PMC551541
OpenAlex
W1757909678
Cited by
416
References
9
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Genome biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (9978564, 0321666)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Medical Research Council
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
cell types, ontology (information science), cell type classification, prokaryotic cells, fungal cells, animal cells, plant cells, directed acyclic graphs, biological databases
MeSH terms
Animals, Computer Graphics, Eukaryotic Cells, Humans, Prokaryotic Cells, Databases, Factual, Vocabulary, Controlled, Internet, Databases, Genetic, Mice

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