The BioStudies database holds descriptions of biological studies, links to data from these studies in other databases at EMBL-EBI or outside, as well as data that do not fit in the structured archives at EMBL-EBI. The database can accept a wide range of types of studies described via a simple format. It also enables manuscript authors to submit supplementary information and link to it from the publication.

Prefix

biostudies

Keywords

biomedical science life science

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioStudies database should match this regular expression:
^S-[A-Z]{4}[\-\_A-Z\d]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

S-EPMC6266652   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioStudies database should match this regular expression:
^biostudies:S-[A-Z]{4}[\-\_A-Z\d]+$

Example CURIE

biostudies:S-EPMC6266652

Publications

• 2018 The BioStudies database-one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study.
• 2015 The BioStudies database.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for biostudies with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE biostudies:S-EPMC6266652 is used to demonstrate the provides available for biostudies. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.