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169,026 cell lines from Cellosaurus.

169,026 cell lines

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Cell lineSpeciesProblem Cellosaurus recordsPapers
LN-229

CVCL_0393

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

104
PLC/PRF/5

CVCL_0485

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

103
CCRF-CEM

CVCL_0207

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

102
T98G

CVCL_0556

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

102
LS174T

CVCL_1384

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

101
MDA-MB-436

CVCL_0623

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

100
SaOS-2

CVCL_0548

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

100
CHO-K1

CVCL_0214

Cricetulus griseus (Chinese hamster)

Spontaneously immortalized cell line

99
NALM-6

CVCL_0092

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

99
SUM159PT

CVCL_5423

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

99
A-431

CVCL_0037

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

97
Caov-3

CVCL_0201

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

97
MRC-5

CVCL_0440

Homo sapiens (Human)

Finite cell line

97
ACHN

CVCL_1067

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

95
CFPAC-1

CVCL_1119

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

95
IMR-32

CVCL_0346

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

94
FreeStyle 293-F

CVCL_D603

Homo sapiens (Human)

Transformed cell line

93
HCC1806

CVCL_1258

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

93
OVCAR-4

CVCL_1627

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

93
SW48

CVCL_1724

Homo sapiens (Human)

Cancer cell line

93

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      {
        "id": "CVCL_0393",
        "title": "LN-229",
        "name": "LN-229",
        "summary": "Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Glioblastoma. 104 papers.",
        "record": "/library/cell-lines/CVCL_0393",
        "species": "Homo sapiens (Human)",
        "category": "Cancer cell line",
        "problem": null,
        "counts": {
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          "papers": 104,
          "relatives": 23,
          "collections": 5
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      },
      {
        "id": "CVCL_0485",
        "title": "PLC/PRF/5",
        "name": "PLC/PRF/5",
        "summary": "Cancer cell line, Homo sapiens. Adult hepatocellular carcinoma. 103 papers.",
        "record": "/library/cell-lines/CVCL_0485",
        "species": "Homo sapiens (Human)",
        "category": "Cancer cell line",
        "problem": null,
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          "problems": 1,
          "papers": 103,
          "relatives": 16,
          "collections": 15
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      {
        "key": "problem",
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  "terms": [
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      "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=7",
  "request_id": "JcjMzWE-cGkvMNve"
}

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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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