Cell-Type Ontology - Bryant McGill

# Cell-Type Ontology **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Type:** Biological knowledge-representation system **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Relationships - A cell-type ontology organizes [[wiki/Cell Type|cell types]] and their identifying properties. - It can constrain BCI target selection and decoding priors when connected to a [[wiki/Connectomic Reference Address Space|connectomic reference address space]]. - Ontology alignment across datasets does not guarantee biological equivalence.  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Cell Type|Cell Type]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Cell-Type Ontology** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Connectomic Reference Address Space|Connectomic Reference Address Space]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Cell-Type Ontology** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **III. The Reusable Human Prior** provides the narrative context for **Cell-Type Ontology**: A language and multimodal model supplies language, culture, common social knowledge, conceptual structure, historical context, symbolic reasoning, and much of the learned environment in which a person developed. - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **Connectomics: The Upstream Reference Infrastructure** provides the narrative context for **Cell-Type Ontology**: The critical epistemic shift enabling next-generation BCI decoding is that connectomics has transitioned from producing static 'maps' to generating reference address spaces—versioned, tooled, continuously improving infrastructure…  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0311 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Cell Type|Cell Type]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Cell-Type Ontology.md`. - **HR-0312 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Connectomic Reference Address Space|Connectomic Reference Address Space]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Cell-Type Ontology.md`.