The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry for software that have been used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications. The ASCL is indexed by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Web of Science's Data Citation Index (WoS DCI), and is citable by using the unique ascl ID assigned to each code. The ascl ID can be used to link to the code entry by prefacing the number with ascl.net (i.e., ascl.net/1201.001).

Prefix

ascl

Keywords

astrophysics and astronomy

Links

Homepage @asclnet

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Astrophysics Source Code Library should match this regular expression:
^[0-9\.]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

1801.012   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Astrophysics Source Code Library should match this regular expression:
^ascl:[0-9\.]+$

Example CURIE

ascl:1801.012

Publications

2015 Looking before Leaping: Creating a Software Registry

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for ascl with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE ascl:1801.012 is used to demonstrate the provides available for ascl. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.