Title

Authors

Affiliation

TOKU-E Company, 150 Cecil St. #16-00, Singapore - 069543.

Email

vamirkia@toku-e.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

Received March 05, 2012; Accepted March 07, 2012; Published March 17, 2012

Cultivation of primary cells is essential for biotechnological research and viral vaccine production. Significant advances in cell and tissue culture, more specifically, advances in the transfection and transduction of human and mammalian cells, has directly led to giant leaps forward in fields such as cancer research, genetics, and public health. At the same time, a corresponding increase has been seen in available cell culture related literature. Often times, due to the sheer number and degree of variability of available literature, it is a challenge to find specific, yet practical cell culture related information. To respond to this rising tide of information, a practical, user-friendly database containing cell-lines, plasmids, vectors, selection agents, concentrations and media was created. The database currently consists of over 3,900 cell lines (Human and Mammalian) and 1,900 plasmids/vectors collected from 2,700 pieces of published literature. The database is continually being expanded and it is hoped that through the continual addition of unique data, the database can further serve and enrich the work of cell and molecular biologists, life-science professionals, and the worldwide scientific community at large.

Availability

http://cell-lines.toku-e.com/.

Citation

Amirkia & Qiubao, Bioinformation 8(5): 237-238 (2012)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.