The BioStudies database holds descriptions of biological studies, links to data from these studies in other databases at EMBL-EBI or outside, as well as data that do not fit in the structured archives at EMBL-EBI. The database can accept a wide range of types of studies described via a simple format. It also enables manuscript authors to submit supplementary information and link to it from the publication.

Prefix

biostudies

Keywords

biomedical science life science

Links

Homepage

Contact

Ugis Sarkans   0000-0001-9227-8488

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioStudies database should match this regular expression:
^S-[A-Z]{4}[\-\_A-Z\d]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

S-EPMC6266652   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioStudies database should match this regular expression:
^biostudies:S-[A-Z]{4}[\-\_A-Z\d]+$

Example CURIE

biostudies:S-EPMC6266652

Publications

• 2018 The BioStudies database-one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study
• 2015 The BioStudies database

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

Resources mentioned in "Sharing biological data: why, when, and how"

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

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 S-EPMC6266652 is used to demonstrate the providers available for BioStudies database. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.