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).
ascl
Local identifiers in Astrophysics Source Code Library should match this
regular expression:
^[0-9\.]+$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Astrophysics Source Code Library should match
this regular expression:
^ascl:[0-9\.]+$
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are
5 mappings to external registries for ascl
with
3 unique external prefixes.
Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
---|---|---|---|
BioContext | biocontext |
ASCL
|
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.wb0txg
|
|
Identifiers.org
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miriam |
ascl
|
|
N2T
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n2t |
ascl
|
|
re3data
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re3data |
r3d100011865
|
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.
Name | Metaprefix | URI |
---|---|---|
Astrophysics Source Code Library | ascl |
http://ascl.net/1801.012 |
Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/ascl:1801.012 |
Identifiers.org | miriam |
https://identifiers.org/ascl:1801.012 |
Name-to-Thing | n2t |
https://n2t.net/ascl:1801.012 |