BioTools is a registry of databases and software with tools, services, and workflows for biological and biomedical research.

Prefix
biotools
Keywords
bioinformatics biology biomedical science
Links
Homepage Repository
Contact
Hans Ienasescu   0000-0001-9727-2544   hansioan
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioTools should match this regular expression:
^[-A-Za-z0-9\_]*$

Example Local Unique Identifier
bioregistry   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioTools should match this regular expression:
^biotools:[-A-Za-z0-9\_]*$

Example CURIE
biotools:bioregistry
Publications
2015 Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources
Metaregistry BioTools

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

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext BIOTOOLS
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.63520c
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam biotools
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t biotools
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100013668
Providers

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

Name Metaprefix URI
BioTools biotools https://bio.tools/bioregistry
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/biotools:bioregistry
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/biotools:bioregistry
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/biotools:bioregistry