The BioSample Database stores information about biological samples used in molecular experiments, such as sequencing, gene expression or proteomics. It includes reference samples, such as cell lines, which are repeatedly used in experiments. Accession numbers for the reference samples will be exchanged with a similar database at NCBI, and DDBJ (Japan). Record access may be affected due to different release cycles and inter-institutional synchronisation.

Prefix

biosample

Alternative Prefixes

biosamples

Keywords

biology

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioSample should match this regular expression:
^SAM[NED](\w)?\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

SAMEA2397676   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioSample should match this regular expression:
^biosample:SAM[NED](\w)?\d+$

Example CURIE

biosample:SAMEA2397676

Publications

2011 BioProject and BioSample databases at NCBI: facilitating capture and organization of metadata

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE None:SAMEA2397676 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.