Can you answer the following 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 chocolate bar. Reply to cellosaurus@sib.swiss up to Dec 4. Hint: you need to "think outisde of the box".
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,_Prince_Hitachi
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
We have a wonderful palette 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
With the continuous growth in number of cell lines and depth of content, the text version of release 47 is now over 100 Mb (101.8 Mb) and the XML version over 400 Mb (422 Mb). Compared to the first release in 2012 this represents a 100x increase!
Release 47 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 148681 #celllines and cite 26994 publications. Highlight of this release: new cross-references to cancercelllines.org, GeneCopoeia and Ubigene
KS-EMPD-1 (will be CVCL_C4LP), the first extramammary Paget’s disease #cellline. See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37432591/
Found a nice "fake" twitter account for Mary Kubicek
https://twitter.com/marykubicekNHS, the lab assistant of George Otto Gey. The account has been created by high school students studying the story of the HeLa #cellline
Information on the anatomical site where a #cellline has been sampled has been completely enhanced and is now linked to the UBERON ontology (http://obofoundry.org/ontology/uberon.html). Cell type information has been also standardized and linked to the CL ontology (http://obofoundry.org/ontology/cl.html). Currently we make use of 803 UBERON and 241 CL terms.
Release 46 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 146062 #celllines and cite 26479 publications. Highlight of this release: enhancement of info on anatomical origin (tissues/organs) and cell type of cell lines.
The #Cellosaurus paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5945021/ has reached over 400 citations. Thank you for citing this paper when using the resource
The 1972 paper describing the snake #cellline OpC-89 https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_T718 is quite interesting as 3 of its 5 authors had "atypical" careers: Ruth L Kirschstein was the 1st woman appointed director of an NIH Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_L._Kirschstein Artrice V Bader was the 1st woman to earn a doctorate in biology at Georgetown https://today.advancement.georgetown.edu/georgetown-magazine/2020/women-wall-honoring-underappreciated-legacy/ and Lester E Harris Jr. was an herpetologist that became a creationist
https://www.amazon.com/Galapagos-Creationist-Visits-Darwins-Islands/dp/0812701259
A very significant milestone for the #Cellosaurus: there are now 10,000 papers that have cited one or more Cellosaurus #cellline Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID)
Interesting paper: "Cancer researchers’ perceptions of the importance of the sex of cell lines, animals, and human samples for cancer biology research" https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042%2823%2900289-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2589004223002894%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Release 45 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 145368 #celllines and cite 26279 publications. #celllines #bioinformatics #biocuration
Today in the #Cellosaurus we have reached 4000 different sequence variations linked to #ClinVar or #dbSNP There are an additional 2450 variants not linked to these two resources. Globally these variations concern 1100 different human genes.
