#metadata

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 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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