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The Cell Ontology in the age of single-cell omics. Shawn Zheng Kai Tan, Aleix Puig-Barbe, Damien Goutte-Gattat, Caroline Eastwood, Brian Aevermann, Alida Avola, James P Balhoff, Ismail Ugur Bayindir, Jasmine Belfiore, Anita Reane Caron, David S Fischer, Nancy George, Benjamin M Gyori, Melissa A Haendel, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Huseyin Kir, Tiago Lubiana, Nicolas Matentzoglu, James A Overton, Beverly Peng, Bjoern Peters, Ellen M Quardokus, Patrick L Ray, Paola Roncaglia, Andrea D Rivera, Ray Stefancsik, Wei Kheng Teh, Sabrina Toro, Nicole Vasilevsky, Chuan Xu, Yun Zhang, Richard H Scheuermann, Christopher J Mungall, Alexander D Diehl, David Osumi-Sutherland. Scientific Data. 2026 Apr 24. DOI:10.1038/s41597-026-07173-8

The Cell Ontology 2016: enhanced content, modularization, and ontology interoperability. Alexander D Diehl, Terrence F Meehan, Yvonne M Bradford, Matthew H Brush, Wasila M Dahdul, David S Dougall, Yongqun He, David Osumi-Sutherland, Alan Ruttenberg, Sirarat Sarntivijai, Ceri E Van Slyke, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Melissa A Haendel, Judith A Blake, Christopher J Mungall. J Biomed Semantics. 2016 Jul 4;7(1):44. PMID:27377652, PMCID:PMC4932724, DOI:10.1186/s13326-016-0088-7

Logical development of the cell ontology. Terrence F Meehan, Anna Maria Masci, Amina Abdulla, Lindsay G Cowell, Judith A Blake, Christopher J Mungall, Alexander D Diehl. BMC Bioinformatics. 2011 Jan 5;12:6. PMID:21208450, PMCID:PMC3024222, DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-12-6

An ontology for cell types. Jonathan Bard, Seung Y Rhee, Michael Ashburner. Genome Biol. 2005;6(2):R21. PMID:15693950, PMCID:PMC551541, DOI:10.1186/gb-2005-6-2-r21