Welcome to Cell Taxonomy

  • 3,143
  • Cell types
  • 26,613
  • Cell markers
  • 34
  • Species
  • 387
  • Tissues
  • 257
  • Conditions
  • 4,299
  • Publications
  • 146
  • Single-cell RNA-seq studies

News

  • 2022/07/29: The cell-type terms as well as associated taxonomy IDs of cell populations in scRNA-seq studies are updated.
  • 2022/07/21: By manual inspection of curation result, the redundant cell types are further deprecated, and the cell types added in up-to-date Cell Ontology are updated.
  • 2022/05/25: The panel of cell-type distribution across tissues is added.
  • 2022/05/21: Four large-scale human single-cell atlas from Human Cell Atlas Consortium are incorporated containing datasets Tabula Sapiens Consortium, Eraslan et al., Domínguez Conde et al. and Suo et al..
  • 2022/04/20: The mouse single-cell atlas of Tabula Muris Consortium containing nearly 100,000 cells from 20 tissues is incorporated.
  • 2022/03/21: The search function in home page is updated to enable searching cell types by synonym.
  • 2022/03/10: The browse pages are updated to be more straightforward.
  • 2022/03/07: The manual curation of 31,647 records containing 797 cell types, 3,351 cell markers, 20 species, 184 tissues and 157 conditions are added.
  • 2022/02/30: Manual curation of 677 publications out of 2,317 recent single-cell relevant publications is finished.
  • 2022/01/11: The information of cell surface marker is added.
  • 2021/12/10: The assessment function for cell markers is added to highlight high-quality cell markers.
  • 2021/11/06: The summary panel is added for each cell type, cell marker and tissue.
  • 2021/10/06: The cell markers from OnClass are added.
  • 2021/09/06: The cell markers from Human Cell Landscape are added.
  • 2021/09/05: The panel of “conserved cell marker” is added enabling cross-species comparison.
  • 2021/09/03: The orthologous information of cell markers is added.
  • 2021/09/02: The pages of species and conditions are updated.
  • 2021/05/20: Cell Taxonomy is available online.

Acknowledgements

The cell types/cell markers from these resources are integrated with curation result of Cell Taxonomy curation team. We acknowledge their valuable contribution in greatly enhancing the understanding of cellular diversity and advancing research in the field.
CellMatch OnClass scTyper.db tinyatlas Invitrogen Immune Cell Guide

How to cite

[1] Jiang, S., Qian, Q., Zhu, T., Zong, W., Shang, Y., Jin, T., Zhang, Y., Chen, M., Wu, Z., Chu, Y. et al. (2023) Cell Taxonomy: a curated repository of cell types with multifaceted characterization. Nucleic Acids Res, 51, D853-D860.
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