GitHub is an online host of Git source code repositories.

Prefix

github

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in github should match this regular expression:
^[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(/[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)?$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

biopragmatics/bioregistry   Resolve
biopragmatics   Resolve
cthoyt   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from github should match this regular expression:
^github:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(/[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)?$

Example CURIEs

github:biopragmatics/bioregistry
github:biopragmatics
github:cthoyt

Contact

Missing Contact

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 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 biopragmatics/bioregistry is used to demonstrate the providers available for github. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.