An ontology for cell types.
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Article
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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
1474-760X
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Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC