The Cell Ontology is designed as a structured controlled vocabulary for cell types. The ontology was constructed for use by the model organism and other bioinformatics databases, incorporating cell types from prokaryotes to mammals, and includes plants and fungi.

Prefix

cl

Preferred Prefix

CL

Version

2022-10-28

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Alexander Diehl   0000-0001-9990-8331   addiehl

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Cell Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0000062   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Cell Ontology should match this regular expression:
^cl:\d{7}$

Example CURIE

cl:0000062

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource includes the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. The actual part that gets prefixed before the local unique identifier regex, otherwise known as the banana, is CL:. Therefore, you might see local unique identifiers written out as CURIEs.

Publications

• 2016 The Cell Ontology 2016: enhanced content, modularization, and ontology interoperability.
• 2011 Logical development of the cell ontology.

Depends On (7)

CHEBI GO NCBITaxon PATO PR RO UBERON

Appears In (2)

GO UBERON

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 14 mappings to external registries for cl with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE cl:0000062 is used to demonstrate the provides available for cl. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.