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An ontology for cell types.


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Authors

Bard, Jonathan 
Rhee, Seung Y 
Ashburner, Michael 

Abstract

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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Keywords

Animals, Computer Graphics, Databases, Factual, Databases, Genetic, Eukaryotic Cells, Humans, Internet, Mice, Prokaryotic Cells, Vocabulary, Controlled

Journal Title

Genome Biol

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Journal ISSN

1465-6914
1474-760X

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Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC