CELLPEDIA

CELLPEDIA is a repository database for current knowledge about human cells. It accumulates various types of information, such as cell morphologies, gene expression, and references to the literature. The major role of CELLPEDIA is to provide a digital dictionary of human cells for biomedical fields, including support for the characterization of artificially generated cells in regenerative medicine. The most prominent characteristics of CELLPEDIA are i) its own cell classification scheme, in which cells are classified by their physical locations in addition to their traditional taxonomy; and ii) cell differentiation pathways compiled from biomedical textbooks and journal papers.