About BioSamples
The team
The BioSamples team is part of the Tony Burdett's team at EMBL-EBI. The team consists of bioinformaticians, ontologists, software engineers, and web developers.
Contact us
If you want to contact us, please email biosamples@ebi.ac.uk. We welcome enquiries on data submission and access, as well as technical issues like integration with other databases and linked open data. We aim to respond within 1 working day.
Announcements
If you use the BioSamples Database regularly, or maintain software that interacts with it, you may want to stay updated by subscribing to our announcement mailing list.
Privacy Notices and Terms of Use
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By using this site, you agree to the policies outlined in our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use (PDF).
If you submit information to BioSamples, we will handle your submission in accordance with our Submission Privacy Notice (PDF).
Publications / How to Cite
- Citing BioSamples database: Please use the following publication: Courtot M, Gupta D, Liyanage I, Xu F, Burdett T. BioSamples database: FAIRer samples metadata to accelerate research data management. Nucleic Acids Research. 2021 Nov 8. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab1046
- Citing BioSamples records in your manuscript: Please include your sample and group accession numbers and the URL to the BioSamples homepage (e.g., "Sample metadata are available in the BioSamples database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples) under accession numbers SAMxxxxxx, SAMxxxxxx, SAMxxxxxx, and SAMxxxxxx.").
- Previous publications: Melanie Courtot et al. BioSamples database: an updated sample metadata hub, Nucleic Acids Research, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky1061.
Acknowledgements
BioSamples has been made possible with the support of our funders:
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute core funds
- European Commission ELIXIR-EXCELERATE
- Wellcome Trust (WT) and Medical Research Council (MRC) - Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Initiative (HipSci)
- Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) - European Bank for induced pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC)
- ELIXIR Meta Data Implementation Study
- Wellcome Trust (WT) - Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)
The BioSamples team would also like to thank:
- Atlassian for Bamboo - Continuous Integration and Release Management tool.
- BrowserStack for providing the infrastructure for cross-browser testing.
