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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 14

Release 53 of #Cellosaurus is ready: www.cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 165'949 #celllines and cite 29'655 publications. Author name representation has changed from listing the surname followed by initials to a full-name format that spells out the given name(s) in full

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jun 24

Cellosaurus is now available in RDF format, with a triple store that supports SPARQL queries. If you want to test it, we have 70 example queries that you can use and modify: api.cellosaurus.org/sparql-editor. And explore our ontology with our new "Concept Hopper": api.cellosaurus.org/rdf-concept-...

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Apr 11

Release 52 of #Cellosaurus is ready: cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 163'868 #celllines and cite 29'267 publications.

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Feb 18

Because conferences abstracts or posters even when published in a journal covered by PubMed are not indexed by PubMed

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

Just transferred all the Cellosaurus tweets to Bluesky using [email protected] import tool. Its a pity you can't transfer retweets but its still quite useful.

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 24

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A nice image for Xmas of the cell line: www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_IR32

Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Dec 17

How convenient - this tree already comes with ornaments! 🎄🧪

Get into the holiday spirit with this beautiful cell tree by @oozguc.bsky.social from @ibecbarcelona.eu. This beautiful fusion of science and art was made using our Lamin B1 stem cell line!

What would you want to see under your cell tree?

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 23

#Cellosaurus_authors_trivia 1: 57 authors won a Nobel prize, 33 Breakthrough, 136 Gairdner, 21 Japan, 48 Jeantet, 82 Lasker & 47 WarrenAlpert. That adds up to 424 prizes but only 253 distinct individuals as 3 got 5 prizes, 9:4, 33:3 & 66:2. Perfectly illustrating the adage "Winning begets winning"

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 23

We are processing the Cellosaurus reference records to replace the authors 1st names initials by their full name. With ~104000 different authors cited in ~29000 publications it is a challenge as in the 1950-80s full names were not often used. We will post a thread of #Cellosaurus_authors_trivia

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 19

Release 51 of #Cellosaurus is ready: cellosaurus.org
It contains information regarding 161'202 #celllines and cite 28'637 publications.

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Dec 9

This is the first post on BlueSky for the #Cellosaurus knowledge resource on #celllines at www.cellosaurus.org

Cellosaurus - Cell line encyclopedia

Cellosaurus, a cell line database, cell line catalogue, cell line ontology

www.cellosaurus.org

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

See our Linkedin post on how the #Cellosaurus now cross-reference to FPBase to indicate the fluorescent protein(s) integrated in a #cellline: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource_fpbase-the-fluorescent-protein-database-activity-7252433521607077888-GOkD

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

Leonard Hayflick, renowned for his groundbreaking discovery of the Hayflick limit, passed away on August 1 at the age of 96.
See our post on the #Cellosaurus page on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource_death-of-leonard-hayflick-leonard-hayflick-activity-7247656...

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

Release 50 of #Cellosaurus is ready: https://www.cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 159461 #celllines and cite 28313 publications.
Highlights of this release: complete reannotation of genetic integration (formerly "transfected") field.

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

First LinkedIn post in a series of scientists cited in #Cellosaurus that also moonlight as artists or musicians (#cellosaurus_artmus): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7211301926733234176

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

A new #Cellosaurus "group" comment was introduced a few months ago: "Malaria research cell line". It allows to efficently retrieve the list of #celllines useful for the study of this disease: https://www.cellosaurus.org/search?query=%22Malaria%20research%20cell%20line%22

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative ( has submitted to #Cellosaurus information on 386 iPSCs that are highly important for the study of Parkinson’s onset & progression. You can search for these #celllines with:

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

As you are well aware, X/Twitter is not what it used to be ... So in addition to our Mastodon feed we have now created a "showcase" page in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource/?viewAsMember=true
We will use it to post news on the #Cellosaurus and on #celllin...

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

Release 49 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 153642 #celllines and cite 27882 publications. Highlights of this release: introduction of plant #celllines and improvements to the XML format

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

The videos for the presentations given at our "Cell lines in the 21st century symposium" are now available on YouTube, They are listed on our educational resource page: https://www.cellosaurus.org/educational_resources.html

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Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

Release 48 of #Cellosaurus contains an entry https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_D4A4 for the 1st sponge #cellline which was recently established from Geodia barretti (see image from Wikipedia) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-32394-x

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

The #Cellosaurus files are growing bigger at each release & we are now past the file size limit (100 Mb) of GitHub. Thus we will no longer update the Cellosaurus on that platform. Users that want access to old releases can do so on @Yareta_UNIGE
https://yareta.unige.ch/home/search?search=sear...

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

Release 48 of #Cellosaurus is ready https://cellosaurus.org It contains information regarding 152231 #celllines and cite 27418 publications. Highlight of this release: new cross-references to BioGRID_ORCS and DSHB.

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

The #Cellosaurus wishes all its users a very happy end of year holiday season (Image credit: DALL·E 3).

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

A last post before Xmas about our #cellline symposium on Jan 11 in Lausanne: https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century As we are not fully booked we offer a Xmas present: enter the discount code CHRISTMAS and benefit from a 20% reduction on the registration fee

Cellosaurus @cellosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 21

We are extending the registration deadline for our symposium "Cell lines in the 21st century" (Jan, 11 2024 in Lausanne): https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century So don't hesitate to register and please retweet! #cellline #conference