The Bioregistry is integrative meta-registry of biological databases, ontologies, and nomenclatures that is backed by an open database.

Prefix
bioregistry
Keywords
bioinformatics cheminformatics computational biology computational chemistry life science ontology and terminology
Links
Homepage Repository @bioregistry@fosstodon.org
Contact
Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Bioregistry should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9\.\-_]*$

Example Local Unique Identifier
bioregistry   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Bioregistry should match this regular expression:
^bioregistry:[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9\.\-_]*$

Example CURIE
bioregistry:bioregistry
Publications
2022 Unifying the Identification of Biomedical Entities with the Bioregistry
Contributors
Metaregistry Bioregistry

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 18951
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.250a8c
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier bioregistry is used to demonstrate the providers available for Bioregistry. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/registry/bioregistry
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/bioregistry:bioregistry