News:Cellosaurus release 35 is available

Question

[Amos Bairoch]

Cellosaurus release 35 is available on the ExPASy server: https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/

1) Statistics

• 123199 cell lines (92668 human, 20991 mouse, 2150 rat)
• 687 species represented
• 84537 synonyms
• 356197 cross-references to 91 ontologies, databases, catalogs, etc.
• 119736 references to 19758 distinct publications (papers, patents, theses, etc.)
• 20909 web links

Since release 34 of March 2020: 4422 entries were created and 30088 entries were updated.

2) Changes in the DR lines

2a) Cross-references were added to the Kerafast cell line collection. Up to now we provided web links to the product description pages but having found a way to use the Kerafast catalog number we have converted these links to cross-references.

Corresponding entry in the file cellosaurus_xrefs.txt:

Abbrev: Kerafast
Name  : Kerafast cell lines
Server: https://www.kerafast.com/
Db_URL: https://www.kerafast.com/Search?SearchTerm=&quot%s"
Cat   : Cell line collections

Example:
DR   Kerafast; EF3003

2b) Cross-references were added to the Liver Cancer Model Repository (LIMORE)

Corresponding entry in the file cellosaurus_xrefs.txt:

Abbrev: LIMORE
Name  : Liver Cancer Model Repository
Server: https://www.picb.ac.cn/limore/home
Db_URL: https://www.picb.ac.cn/limore/cellLines/single?para=%s
Cat   : Cell line databases/resources

Example:
DR   LIMORE; CLC1