About BioSamples

What is BioSamples?

The BioSamples database aggregates sample information for reference samples e.g. Coriell Cell lines and samples for which data exist in one of the EBI's assay databases such as ArrayExpress, the European Nucleotide Archive, or PRIDE. It provides links to assays for specific samples, and accepts direct submissions of samples.

Publications / how to cite

  • Citing BioSample database: please use the following publication: Gostev M., Faulconbridge A., et al., 2012. The BioSample Database (BioSD) at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Nucleic Acids Res, doi:10.1093/nar/gkr937. Pubmed ID 22096232.
  • Citing BioSample submission in your manuscript: please include your experiment accession number and the URL to BioSample home page e.g. "Sample meta-data are available in the BioSamples database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples) under accession number SAMxxxxxx."

The team behind BioSamples

The BioSamples team is part of the Helen Parkinson's team at EMBL-EBI. The team consists of bioinformaticians, ontologists, software engineers and web developers.

Acknowledgements

BioSamples and related activities are supported by member states of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory; European Commission: BioMedBridges [284209]; Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council (MRC): Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Initiative (HipSci).

The BioSamples team would like to thank the following companies for their support through the offering of free software licenses: