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Cell lines

One record for each cell line in Cellosaurus 57.0 of 22 Oct 2026, SIB's knowledge resource on cell lines. Each joins the line to the problems Cellosaurus records, such as contamination or misidentification, in its own words; its parent, children and lines from the same person; the cell banks that hold it; and the papers that used it: those Cellosaurus cites, and PubMed Central articles whose Methods give the line's RRID beside its name.

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Search Cell lines.

A cell line's RRID or Cellosaurus accession, such as RRID:CVCL_0030 or CVCL_0030; its name, a synonym or a misspelling Cellosaurus records; or words in its names, diseases, site or cell type. Case and punctuation do not matter. Each word matches the words that start with it.

169,026 cell lines from Cellosaurus.

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Cell lines 169,026

Most papers first1 to 20 of 169,026

Show the results as
Cell lineSpeciesProblem Cellosaurus recordsPapers
HEK293T

CVCL_0063

Homo sapiens (Human)

Transformed cell line

2,726
HeLa

CVCL_0030

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

892
A-549

CVCL_0023

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

863
HEK293

CVCL_0045

Homo sapiens (Human)

Transformed cell line

847
MDA-MB-231

CVCL_0062

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

845
MCF-7

CVCL_0031

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

836
HCT 116

CVCL_0291

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

711
THP-1

CVCL_0006

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

579
Hep-G2

CVCL_0027

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

Misclassified496
U2OS

CVCL_0042

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

443
HT-29

CVCL_0320

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

395
RAW 264.7

CVCL_0493

Mus musculus (Mouse)

Cancer cell line

365
PC-3

CVCL_0035

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

364
PANC-1

CVCL_0480

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

348
K-562

CVCL_0004

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

341
Huh-7

CVCL_0336

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

340
SH-SY5Y

CVCL_0019

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

Partially contaminated329
MIA PaCa-2

CVCL_0428

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

295
DU145

CVCL_0105

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

293
MCF-10A

CVCL_0598

Homo sapiens (Human)

Spontaneously immortalized cell line

290

Request

GET /api/cell-lines/v1

A cell line's RRID or Cellosaurus accession, such as RRID:CVCL_0030 or CVCL_0030; its name, a synonym or a misspelling Cellosaurus records; or words in its names, diseases, site or cell type. Case and punctuation do not matter. Each word matches the words that start with it.

Only the lines with a problem Cellosaurus records: contaminated, misidentified or misclassified.

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Code

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curl "https://conductscience.org/api/cell-lines/v1"

Response

The first 2 of this page's 20 results. GET /api/cell-lines/v1

{
  "data": {
    "total": 169026,
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "CVCL_0063",
        "title": "HEK293T",
        "name": "HEK293T",
        "summary": "Transformed cell line, Homo sapiens. 2,726 papers.",
        "record": "/library/cell-lines/CVCL_0063",
        "species": "Homo sapiens (Human)",
        "category": "Transformed cell line",
        "problem": null,
        "counts": {
          "problems": 0,
          "papers": 2726,
          "relatives": 1324,
          "collections": 21
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "CVCL_0030",
        "title": "HeLa",
        "name": "HeLa",
        "summary": "Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma. 892 papers.",
        "record": "/library/cell-lines/CVCL_0030",
        "species": "Homo sapiens (Human)",
        "category": "Cancer cell line",
        "problem": null,
        "counts": {
          "problems": 0,
          "papers": 892,
          "relatives": 2273,
          "collections": 30
        }
      }
    ],
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        "key": "name",
        "label": "Cell line",
        "under": "id"
      },
      {
        "key": "species",
        "label": "Species",
        "under": "category"
      },
      {
        "key": "problem",
        "label": "Problem Cellosaurus records"
      },
      {
        "key": "counts.papers",
        "label": "Papers"
      }
    ],
    "order": "Most papers first",
    "kinds": {
      "all": 169026,
      "problematic": 1391
    }
  },
  "release": "cell-lines-2026-11-14-0.1.0",
  "terms": [
    {
      "source": "Cellosaurus",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cellosaurus's README: \"we have chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to Cellosaurus (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This means that you are free to copy and redistribute Cellosaurus in any medium or format. You can remix, transform, and build upon Cellosaurus for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.\" Copyright (c) CALIPHO group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Read on 14 Nov 2026 at https://ftp.expasy.org/databases/cellosaurus/README",
      "short": "CC BY 4.0, with credit to Cellosaurus (SIB)",
      "notice": "Cellosaurus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, https://www.cellosaurus.org, CC BY 4.0. Its problem notes are given in its own words."
    },
    {
      "source": "PubMed Central's articles",
      "license": "Each article's own license. Its words show only under CC0, CC BY or public domain",
      "short": "Titles shown only for CC0, CC BY and public domain articles",
      "notice": null
    },
    {
      "source": "NLM's PMC Article Datasets",
      "license": "NLM's PMC Article Datasets on AWS, https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-pmc. Its terms: users \"acknowledge NLM as the source of the data in a clear and conspicuous manner\", do not use the PubMed Central wordmark or the PMC logo, do not \"indicate or imply that NLM/NIH/HHS has endorsed\" a product, and \"only distribute data that are licensed for redistribution\". Each article keeps its own license: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/copyright/",
      "short": "Courtesy of NLM, which does not endorse this database",
      "notice": null
    },
    {
      "source": "PubMed",
      "license": "NLM's terms",
      "short": "NLM's terms",
      "notice": null
    }
  ],
  "next": "/api/cell-lines/v1?page=2",
  "request_id": "RQSWo__XqDVgioUl"
}

What it holds

Holds
169,026 cell lines
From Cellosaurus. Counted 14 Nov 2026.
Release
14 Nov 2026
cell-lines-2026-11-14-0.1.0
Checked
RRID links passed automated checks: 99.99% of the RRIDs in PubMed Central Methods name a Cellosaurus line, and 92% of those give the line's name nearby
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The 4 lists in a cell line's record, and how many cell lines have each.

  • Problems

    Cellosaurus records no problem for this cell line.

    2,7091.6% of cell lines

  • Papers

    5 more articles give this line's RRID in its Methods without naming the line nearby, so they are not listed.

    90,76853.7% of cell lines

  • Relatives

    89,21552.8% of cell lines

  • Cell banks

    106,34662.9% of cell lines

Sources 4

  • CellosaurusCC BY 4.0, with credit to Cellosaurus (SIB)
  • PubMed Central's articlesTitles shown only for CC0, CC BY and public domain articles
  • NLM's PMC Article DatasetsCourtesy of NLM, which does not endorse this database
  • PubMedNLM's terms
Each source's terms
  • CellosaurusCC BY 4.0. Cellosaurus's README: "we have chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license to Cellosaurus (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This means that you are free to copy and redistribute Cellosaurus in any medium or format. You can remix, transform, and build upon Cellosaurus for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made." Copyright (c) CALIPHO group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Read on 14 Nov 2026 at https://ftp.expasy.org/databases/cellosaurus/README
  • PubMed Central's articlesEach article's own license. Its words show only under CC0, CC BY or public domain
  • NLM's PMC Article DatasetsNLM's PMC Article Datasets on AWS, https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-pmc. Its terms: users "acknowledge NLM as the source of the data in a clear and conspicuous manner", do not use the PubMed Central wordmark or the PMC logo, do not "indicate or imply that NLM/NIH/HHS has endorsed" a product, and "only distribute data that are licensed for redistribution". Each article keeps its own license: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/copyright/
  • PubMedNLM's terms

Cellosaurus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, https://www.cellosaurus.org, CC BY 4.0. Its problem notes are given in its own words.

Genes

NCBI Gene

One gene with its proteins, patents, drugs, trials, grants and papers.

Trials

ClinicalTrials.gov

Search clinical trials by condition, drug, outcome or NCT number, with the results each one posted.

Trial comparisons

ClinicalTrials.gov

Comparisons of the groups of clinical trials, such as a risk ratio or a number needed to treat, calculated from the counts each trial posted.

Sequences

Patent publications

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Instruments

The conductscience.com catalog

One instrument from the ConductScience store with the tests, measures and species it is used for, the papers that used it, and the MeSH topics of those papers.

Drugs and targets

Open Targets

One drug with its targets, the diseases it is studied for, and the trials that name it, with their comparisons, papers and cognitive tests.

Diseases

Open Targets

One disease with the drugs studied for it, the targets those drugs act on, and the trials that study it, with their comparisons and papers.

Companies

ClinicalTrials.gov

One company with the trials it leads or helps run, the drugs those trials test, the conditions they study and the organizations it runs them with.

For software

Read Cell lines from software.

Every answer on this page is also JSON, under /api/cell-lines/v1. No key.

GET https://conductscience.org/api/cell-lines/v1?q=RRID:CVCL_1906

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