OIDs provide a persistent identification of objects based on a hierarchical structure of Registration Authorities (RA), where each parent has an object identifier and allocates object identifiers to child nodes.

Prefix

oid

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in OID Repository should match this regular expression:
^[\d.]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

2.16.840   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from OID Repository should match this regular expression:
^oid:[\d.]+$

Example CURIE

oid:2.16.840

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for oid.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE oid:2.16.840 is used to demonstrate the provides available for oid. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.