title: An ontology for cell types.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK. j.bard@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bard
authors.forename: Seung Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Rhee
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ashburner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells / Q000145:classification*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled