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169,026 cell lines from Cellosaurus.

169,026 cell lines

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Cell lineSpeciesProblem Cellosaurus recordsPapers
NCI-H929

CVCL_1600

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

68
HCC38

CVCL_1267

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

67
HSC-3

CVCL_1288

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

67
NCI-H1650

CVCL_1483

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

67
NCI-H441

CVCL_1561

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

67
143B

CVCL_2270

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

66
TC-71

CVCL_2213

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

66
Ca Ski

CVCL_1100

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

65
Namalwa

CVCL_0067

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

65
KYSE-150

CVCL_1348

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

64
MeWo

CVCL_0445

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

64
A2058

CVCL_1059

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

63
Detroit 562

CVCL_1171

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

63
KATO III

CVCL_0371

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

63
RWPE-1

CVCL_3791

Homo sapiens (Human)

Transformed cell line

63
SCC-9

CVCL_1685

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

63
GM25256

CVCL_Y803

Homo sapiens (Human)

Induced pluripotent stem cell

62
NB4

CVCL_0005

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

62
NCI-H522

CVCL_1567

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

62
SW837

CVCL_1729

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

62

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      {
        "id": "CVCL_1600",
        "title": "NCI-H929",
        "name": "NCI-H929",
        "summary": "Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Plasma cell myeloma. 68 papers.",
        "record": "/library/cell-lines/CVCL_1600",
        "species": "Homo sapiens (Human)",
        "category": "Cancer cell line",
        "problem": null,
        "counts": {
          "problems": 0,
          "papers": 68,
          "relatives": 3,
          "collections": 9
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "CVCL_1267",
        "title": "HCC38",
        "name": "HCC38",
        "summary": "Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Breast ductal carcinoma. 67 papers.",
        "record": "/library/cell-lines/CVCL_1267",
        "species": "Homo sapiens (Human)",
        "category": "Cancer cell line",
        "problem": null,
        "counts": {
          "problems": 0,
          "papers": 67,
          "relatives": 7,
          "collections": 4
        }
      }
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      {
        "key": "problem",
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  "terms": [
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      "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=11",
  "request_id": "nVasf_CASkSbVJLK"
}

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169,026 cell lines
From Cellosaurus. Counted 14 Nov 2026.
Release
14 Nov 2026
cell-lines-2026-11-14-0.1.0
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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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  • 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
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  • 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

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