BioSamples API
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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