Ontology
CELLOSAURUS
Cellosaurus
The Cellosaurus is a knowledge resource on cell lines. It attempts to describe all cell lines used in biomedical research. Its scope includes: Immortalized cell lines; naturally immortal cell lines (example: stem cell lines); finite life cell lines when those are distributed and used widely; vertebrate cell line with an emphasis on human, mouse and rat cell lines; and invertebrate (insects and ticks) cell lines. Its scope does not include primary cell lines (with the exception of the finite life cell lines described above) and plant cell lines.
Source & access
- homepage cellosaurus.org HTTP 200
- repository github.com HTTP 200
- download ftp.expasy.org HTTP 200
Portals & registries
Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.hkk309 wikidata.entity: Q21014462
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1002/ijc.32639+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)OBO+5
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OBO+3
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
- Release provenance (R1.2)57.0 (version info in the artefact)+4
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
- OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
- Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
- Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
- ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
- ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
- Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
- Recency2026-10-22 → 0.1 months (≤ 3 months)+10
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 14 → 1, citations 782 → 4)+4
- Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
- Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0
FAIR subtotal 35/48 · earned 49/100 = 49/100 → grade D
Community adoption 0
No adopting projects documented yet.
Know a project that uses CELLOSAURUS? Suggest it.
History & changes 1 run
History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 49 D | 35 | 57.0 | — | JSON |
Provenance
Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 200) | cellosaurus.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Repository link check (HTTP 200) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Download link check (HTTP 200) | ftp.expasy.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Artefact header (version info) | ftp.expasy.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Git refs (commit 3b01e73) | github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| GitHub repository statistics | api.github.com | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.1002/ijc.32639) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.7171/jbt.18-2902-002) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 02:42 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- CLASTR: The Cellosaurus STR similarity search tool - A precious help for cell line authentication (2019) · doi:10.1002/ijc.32639 · 76 citations
- The Cellosaurus, a Cell-Line Knowledge Resource (2018) · doi:10.7171/jbt.18-2902-002 · 782 citations