BioSamples

Programatic Interface

BioSamples Database provides an interface that is suitable for programmatic queries. This consists of four entry point URLs ( descibed below), each of which returns an XML response.

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Sample Accession

• Returns information about a single specified sample.
• http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/sample/ACCESSION where ACCESSION is the BioSample Database accession of the sample of interest.
• e.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/sample/SAME315173
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Group Accession

• Returns information about a specified group.
• http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/group/ACCESSION where ACCESSION is the BioSample Database accession of the group of interest.
• e.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/group/SAMEG82620
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Find Groups

• Returns group accessions that match the specified search query.
• http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/group/query=QUERY where QUERY is the term to query for
• e.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/group/query=leukemia
• Results are returned in one or more pages and will always return result summary information.
• Can use advanced query features.
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Find Samples Within a Group

• Returns sample accessions that match the specified search query and are in the specified group.
• http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/groupsamples/ACCESSION/query=QUERY where ACCESSION is the group to query within and QUERY is the term to query for.
• e.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/xml/groupsamples/SAMEG82620/query=leukemia
• Results are returned in one or more pages and will always return result summary information.
• Can use advanced query features.
• If query is blank, all samples within that group are matched.
• more information