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BioSamples API

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BioSamples as an API, powered by EMBL-EBI — the database that stores and links the metadata of biological samples, the physical specimens behind biological experiments. A sample in BioSamples carries a stable accession (such as SAMEA3231268) and a rich set of characteristics — organism, tissue or organism part, cell type, sex, disease, developmental stage, strain and any submitter-provided attributes — and is referenced by other EBI archives including the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), ArrayExpress and PRIDE. /v1/search?q=liver searches samples by free text and returns each match's accession, name, organism and release date. /v1/sample?id=SAMEA3231268 returns a sample's metadata — its accession, name, NCBI taxon id, organism, release and update dates, the number of relationships to other samples, and its characteristics flattened to a clean key→value map. Accessions look like SAMEA…, SAMN… or SAMD…; get one from the search endpoint. Ideal for life-science data integration, sample tracking, metadata harmonisation and linking sequencing or expression data back to its source specimen. Data from EMBL-EBI BioSamples (public). This is a biological-sample metadata registry — distinct from study (BioStudies), sequence (ENA), variant (ClinVar) and structure databases.

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BioStudies API

BioStudies as an API, powered by EMBL-EBI — the database that holds the descriptions of biological studies and links their data together across EBI resources, including imaging (BioImage Archive), functional genomics (ArrayExpress), proteomics, and the literature (Europe PMC). Each study has an accession, a title and abstract, the collection it belongs to and links to its underlying data and publications. /v1/search?query=covid searches the studies and returns each match's accession (e.g. S-EPMC8017430), title, author, study type, release date and link/file counts. /v1/study?id=S-EPMC8017430 returns a study's metadata — its accession, the collection it belongs to (such as EuropePMC, ArrayExpress or BioImages), title, abstract, release date, authors and the number of linked resources. Accessions look like S-EPMC8017430 or S-BSST123; get one from the search endpoint. Ideal for research-data discovery, linking literature to its underlying datasets, systematic reviews and reproducibility tooling. Data from EMBL-EBI BioStudies (public). This is a studies and datasets metadata index — distinct from the sequence (UniProt, ENA), structure (PDB, EMDB), variant (ClinVar) and ontology databases.

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BioModels API

BioModels as an API, powered by EMBL-EBI — the world's largest repository of curated, published mathematical models of biological systems. BioModels collects computational models (mostly in SBML, the Systems Biology Markup Language) of metabolism, cell signalling, gene-regulatory networks, the cell cycle, disease processes and physiology, each linked to the peer-reviewed publication it comes from. /v1/search?query=glycolysis searches the repository and returns each matching model's id (such as BIOMD0000000012), name, format, submitter and submission/modification dates. /v1/model?id=BIOMD0000000012 returns a model's metadata — its name and description, the encoding format, the modelling approach (e.g. ordinary differential equation model), the curation status, the publication behind it (title, journal, year, authors) and the model files. Model ids look like BIOMD0000000012 for curated models or MODEL1234567890 for non-curated submissions; get them from the search endpoint. Ideal for systems-biology and computational-modelling tools, reproducible-research and model-reuse workflows, and teaching. Data from EMBL-EBI BioModels (CC0). This is a systems-biology / computational-model repository — distinct from sequence (UniProt, ENA), structure (PDB, AlphaFold), pathway and variant (ClinVar) databases.

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The EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) as an API — a single access point to more than 280 biomedical and scientific ontologies and controlled vocabularies in one place: the Gene Ontology (GO), the Human Disease Ontology (DOID), the Human Phenotype Ontology (HP), ChEBI (chemical entities), Uberon (anatomy), the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO), Mondo, NCIt and many more. /v1/search?q=diabetes searches terms across all ontologies (or restrict to one with ontology=doid), returning each match's label, OBO id (such as DOID:9351 or GO:0008150), ontology, IRI and a short definition. /v1/term?ontology=doid&id=DOID:9351 returns a single term's detail — its label, definition, IRI, synonyms and whether it is obsolete. /v1/ontologies browses the available ontologies with their id, title, description and number of terms. OBO ids look like DOID:9351, GO:0008150, HP:0000118 or CHEBI:15377. Ideal for biomedical natural-language processing, data annotation and harmonisation, autocomplete over scientific terminology, and semantic and knowledge-graph tooling. Data from EMBL-EBI OLS (open). This is a general ontology / controlled-vocabulary lookup spanning many domains — broader than a single medical thesaurus such as MeSH.

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Frequently asked questions

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How do I get an API key for BioSamples API?
Sign up for free at oanor.com, generate an API key from the developer dashboard, and call BioSamples API with the x-oanor-key header. No credit card needed for the free tier.
What's the rate limit for BioSamples API?
Free tier allows 1 request per second. Paid plans scale up to 50 requests per second on the Mega tier. Hard limits return HTTP 429 above the quota — no surprise overage charges.
How much does BioSamples API cost?
BioSamples API has a free tier with 100 calls / month. Paid plans start at €6.00 / month with higher quotas and faster rate limits.
Can I cancel my subscription anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel anytime from your billing dashboard. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee.
Is BioSamples API GDPR-compliant?
All requests to BioSamples API go through our EU-based gateway. Your upstream API key never leaves our server and no personal data is shared with the upstream provider beyond the request you send.

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curl https://api.oanor.com/biosamples-api/SOME_PATH \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/biosamples-api/SOME_PATH", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/biosamples-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/biosamples-api/SOME_PATH",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())

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