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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched a public research consortium named ENCODE, the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements, in September 2003, to carry out a project to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence. The ENCODE DCC users Uberon to annotate samples
The Cell Ontology is designed as a structured controlled vocabulary for cell types. This ontology was constructed for use by the model organism and other bioinformatics databases, where there is a need for a controlled vocabulary of cell types. This ontology is not organism specific it covers cell types from prokaryotes to mammals. However, it excludes plant cell types, which are covered by PO.
Integration with other ontologies
Cell types in CL are linked to uberon via part-of
relationships. The cl.owl product imports a subset of the entire
uberon ontology. To see all cell types in the context of all
anatomical structures, use the uberon ext release.
Cell types are linked to GO biological processes via the
capable-of relationship type. CL also links to other ontologies such
as chebi, pr and pato.
In turn, CL is linked to from a variety of ontologies such as GO,
Uberon and various phenotype ontologies.
Applications
One of the main uses of the CL is to describe samples used in
transcriptomic and functional genomics studies, such as FANTOM5,
ENCODE and LINCS.
This is described in the following publications:
Malladi, V. S., Erickson, D. T., Podduturi, N. R., Rowe, L. D., Chan,
E. T., Davidson, J. M., … Hong, E. L. (2015). Ontology application and
use at the ENCODE DCC. Database : The Journal of Biological Databases
and Curation, 2015, bav010–. doi:10.1093/database/bav010
Lizio, M., Harshbarger, J., Shimoji, H., Severin, J., Kasukawa, T.,
Sahin, S., … Kawaji, H. (2015). Gateways to the FANTOM5 promoter level
mammalian expression atlas. Genome Biology, 16(1),
22. doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0560-6