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Cellosaurus API

Cellosaurus as an API, powered by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics — the reference encyclopaedia of cell lines used in biomedical research. With more than 150,000 entries spanning cancer cell lines, hybridomas, induced pluripotent stem cells, and lines from hundreds of species, Cellosaurus is the authoritative catalogue researchers use to identify and validate the cell lines behind published experiments. Search the cell lines by name or keyword, getting each line's Cellosaurus accession (CVCL_…), name, category, species and disease; and read a cell line's full record — its name and synonyms, category (e.g. cancer cell line, hybridoma, stem cell), species with NCBI taxonomy id, sex, age, the disease it derives from with NCIt/ontology identifiers, the tissue or anatomical site of origin, its parent cell line and the number of derived child lines, the count of literature references and the many cross-references (to ATCC, DSMZ, ECACC, Wikidata and more), relevant web pages, and — critically for research reproducibility — whether the line is flagged PROBLEMATIC, meaning it has been misidentified or cross-contaminated, together with the explanatory notes. Ideal for laboratory quality control and cell-line authentication, biomedical and cancer research, data curation and reproducibility checks. Accessions look like CVCL_0030 (HeLa). Data from Cellosaurus (CC-BY 4.0).