Registry BioTools

BioTools is a registry of databases and software with tools, services, and workflows for biological and biomedical research.

Prefix: biotools
License: CC-BY-4.0
Links: Homepage Repository
Publications: 2019 The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences; 2015 Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local unique identifiers in BioTools should match this regular expression:
^[-A-Za-z0-9\_]*$
Example Local Unique Identifier: bioregistry Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioTools should match this regular expression:
^biotools:[-A-Za-z0-9\_]*$
Example CURIE: biotools:bioregistry

Contacts

Contact: Hans Ienasescu 0000-0001-9727-2544 hansioan
Identifier Space Owner: Technical University of Denmark

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
BioContext	`biocontext`	`BIOTOOLS`
Identifiers.org namespace	`miriam`	`biotools`
N2T	`n2t`	`biotools`
re3data	`re3data`	`r3d100013668`

Providers

Suggest

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 BioTools. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
BioTools	`biotools`	https://bio.tools/bioregistry
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/biotools:bioregistry
Identifiers.org namespace	`miriam`	https://identifiers.org/biotools:bioregistry
Name-to-Thing	`n2t`	https://n2t.net/biotools:bioregistry

This name annotation was originally annotated in Identifiers.org namespace and is redistributed under the CC-BY-4.0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("biotools")
'BioTools'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("biotools")
'CC-BY-4.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("biotools")
'https://bio.tools/'

Get the repository:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_repository("biotools")
'https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsregistry'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("biotools")
'Hans Ienasescu'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("biotools")
'haiiu@dtu.dk'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("biotools")
'hansioan'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("biotools")
'0000-0001-9727-2544'