How to get a list of all hPSCreg names

You can get a list of all released cell lines in hPSCreg with:

This returns a JSON list. The … are not part of the actual output and indicate that there will be more results.

[
    {
        "name": "AAUe001-A",
        "url": "https:\/\/hpscreg.eu\/cell-line\/AAUe001-A",
        "other_names": [
            "CLS1"
        ],
        "type": "embryonic stem cell",
        "type_ont_id": "http:\/\/purl.obolibrary.org\/obo\/CL_0002322"
    },
    …
    {
        "name": "BCRTi004-A",
        "url": "https:\/\/hpscreg.eu\/cell-line\/BCRTi004-A",
        "databases": [
            {
                "database": {
                    "name": "BioSamples",
                    "description": "database of sample descriptions",
                    "url": "https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/biosamples\/",
                },
                "id_in_database": "SAMEA4084802",
                "url_in_database": "https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/biosamples\/samples\/SAMEA4084802"
            }
        ],
        "other_names": [
            "SAMEA4084802"
        ],
        "type": "induced pluripotent stem cell",
        "type_ont_id": "http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/efo\/EFO_0004905"
    },
    …
]

How to find a specific cell line

You can find the the hPSCreg name of a cell line with a specific synonym or id from another database. An example query for a well known name would be:

This also returns a JSON list, because there can be multiple results. Usually the list contains only one result:

[
    {
        "name": "WAe009-A",
        "url": "https:\/\/hpscreg.eu\/cell-line\/WAe009-A",
        …
        "other_names": [
            "SAMEA7769668",
            "WA09",
            "H9"
        ],
        "type": "embryonic stem cell",
        "type_ont_id": "http:\/\/purl.obolibrary.org\/obo\/CL_0002322"
    }
]

You can also query with ids from other databases like BioSamples:

[
    {
        "name": "UKKi006-A",
        "url": "https:\/\/hpscreg.eu\/cell-line\/UKKi006-A",
        "databases": [
            {
                "database": {
                    "name": "BioSamples",
                    "description": "database of sample descriptions",
                    "url": "https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/biosamples\/",
                },
                "id_in_database": "SAMEA2825851",
                "url_in_database": "https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/biosamples\/samples\/SAMEA2825851"
            }
        ],
        "other_names": [
            "D4-cB",
            "M4C4",
            "SAMEA2825851",
            "NP0053-5"
        ],
        "type": "induced pluripotent stem cell",
        "type_ont_id": "http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/efo\/EFO_0004905"
    }
]

If a query doesn't yield any results a HTTP status code of 404 is given. Note that this API is only using full names. This is not a free text search and no substring matching is done. For search in hPSCreg use the browser search.

Some names include characters that can interfere with the URL, like /. For this reason the name to find can also be given as a query parameter, properly escaped:

[
    {
        "name": "BIONi010-C-2",
        "url": "https:\/\/hpscreg.eu\/cell-line\/BIONi010-C-2",
        "databases": [
            {
                "database": {
                    "id": 1,
                    "name": "BioSamples",
                    "description": "database of sample descriptions",
                    "url": "https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/biosamples\/"
                },
                "id_in_database": "SAMEA4342705",
                "url_in_database": "https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/biosamples\/samples\/SAMEA4342705"
            }
        ],
        "other_names": [
            "SAMEA4342705",
            "BIONi010-C ApoE E3\/E3 #H8 P32"
        ],
        "type": "induced pluripotent stem cell",
        "type_ont_id": "http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/efo\/EFO_0004905"
    }
]

JSON fields

The fields of the names result JSON are:

In databases we store how the cell line is named in other databases. The fields are:

The other database is described with these fields: