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The Cell Ontology (CL) is an OBO Foundry candidate ontology intended for the representation of cell types from all of biology. A recent workshop sponsored by NIAID on hematopoietic cell types in the CL addressed issues of both the content and structure of the CL. The section of the ontology dealing with hematopoietic cells was extensively revised, and plans were made for restructuring these cell type terms as cross-products with logical definitions based on relationships to external ontologies, such as the Protein Ontology and the Gene Ontology. The improvements to the CL in this area represent a paradigm for the future revision of the whole of the CL.
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Masci, A., Pulendran, B., Meehan, T. et al. Hematopoietic Cell Types: Prototype for a Revised Cell Ontology. Nat Prec (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3543.2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3543.2