Registry Complex Portal

A database that describes manually curated macromolecular complexes and provides links to details about these complexes in other databases.

Prefix: complexportal
Alternative Prefixes: ComplexPortal
Keywords: complex ontology protein protein complex protein-protein interaction databases
License: CC0-1.0
Links: Homepage OBO OWL OBO JSON
Publications: 2025 Complex portal 2025: predicted human complexes and enhanced visualisation tools for the comparison of orthologous and paralogous complexes; https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:30357405; 2014 The complex portal--an encyclopaedia of macromolecular complexes

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local unique identifiers in Complex Portal should match this regular expression:
^CPX-[0-9]+$
Example Local Unique Identifier: CPX-263 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Complex Portal should match this regular expression:
^complexportal:CPX-[0-9]+$
Example CURIE: complexportal:CPX-263

Contacts

Contacts: Sucharitha Balu 0000-0001-7456-0594 CP-SB; Juan Jose Medina Reyes 0009-0004-6468-260X jmedinaebi
Identifier Space Owner: European Bioinformatics Institute

Ontology

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

In Collection (1): Synapse.org external links

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 9 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
BioContext	`biocontext`	`COMPLEXPORTAL`
Biolink	`biolink.resource`	`ComplexPortal`
GO	`go.resource`	`ComplexPortal`
Identifiers.org namespace	`miriam`	`complexportal`
N2T	`n2t`	`complexportal`
Prefix Commons	`prefixcommons`	`complexportal`
re3data	`re3data`	`r3d100013295`
UniProt	`uniprot.resource`	`DB-0228`
Wikidata	`wikidata.property`	`P7718`

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 CPX-263 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Complex Portal. 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
Complex Portal	`complexportal`	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/complexportal/complex/CPX-263
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/complexportal:CPX-263
Identifiers.org namespace	`miriam`	https://identifiers.org/complexportal:CPX-263
Name-to-Thing	`n2t`	https://n2t.net/complexportal:CPX-263

Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URL
Bio2RDF	`bio2rdf`	http://bio2rdf.org/complexportal:CPX-263

Normalize prefixes. This can be any capitalization or punctuation variant of the synonyms listed below.

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.normalize_prefix("ComplexPortal")
'complexportal'

Get all synonyms:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_synonyms("complexportal")
{'ComplexPortal'}

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0-1.0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("complexportal")
'Complex Portal'

Get the license:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_license("complexportal")
'CC0-1.0'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("complexportal")
'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/complexportal'

Get the OBO download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_obo_download("complexportal")
'https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/complexportal/complexportal.obo'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("complexportal")
'https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/complexportal/complexportal.owl'

Get the JSON download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_json_download("complexportal")
'https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/complexportal/complexportal.json'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("complexportal")
'Sucharitha Balu'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("complexportal")
'sbalu@ebi.ac.uk'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("complexportal")
'CP-SB'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("complexportal")
'0000-0001-7456-0594'