1. CELLPEDIA: a repository for human cell information for cell studies and differentiation analyses.
- Author
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Hatano A, Chiba H, Moesa HA, Taniguchi T, Nagaie S, Yamanegi K, Takai-Igarashi T, Tanaka H, and Fujibuchi W
- Subjects
- Cell Differentiation, Humans, User-Computer Interface, Cell Physiological Phenomena, Cells classification, Database Management Systems, Databases, Factual
- Abstract
CELLPEDIA is a repository database for current knowledge about human cells. It contains various types of information, such as cell morphologies, gene expression and literature references. The major role of CELLPEDIA is to provide a digital dictionary of human cells for the biomedical field, including support for the characterization of artificially generated cells in regenerative medicine. CELLPEDIA features (i) its own cell classification scheme, in which whole human cells are classified by their physical locations in addition to conventional taxonomy; and (ii) cell differentiation pathways compiled from biomedical textbooks and journal papers. Currently, human differentiated cells and stem cells are classified into 2260 and 66 cell taxonomy keys, respectively, from which 934 parent-child relationships reported in cell differentiation or transdifferentiation pathways are retrievable. As far as we know, this is the first attempt to develop a digital cell bank to function as a public resource for the accumulation of current knowledge about human cells. The CELLPEDIA homepage is freely accessible except for the data submission pages that require authentication (please send a password request to cell-info@cbrc.jp). Database URL: http://cellpedia.cbrc.jp/
- Published
- 2011
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