The QIAGEN Cell Ontology
CLC Single Cell Analysis Module has a built-in QIAGEN Cell Ontology of cell types curated by QIAGEN, associated with (figure 1.7)
- tissue information;
- synonyms;
- OmicSoft controlled vocabulary term, http://www.arrayserver.com/wiki/index.php?title=OmicSoft_Land_Metadata_Definitions;
- CL Cell Ontology term, http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/cl.html.
Figure 1.7: View of heart cells in the QIAGEN Cell Ontology.
The QIAGEN Cell Ontology can be accessed through a Dimensionality Reduction Plot, see Manual Annotation. When browsing the ontology, the desired cell types can be quickly identified by using the search functionality and restrict the displayed information to specific cell types, tissues, or any other free text (figure 1.7).
The pre-trained classifiers available as reference data (see The Reference Data Manager) contain only cell types from QIAGEN Cell Ontology.