The Biolookup Service provides metadata and ontological information about biomedical entities based on their compact identifiers (CURIEs).
Resources
Names
Alt. IDs
Definitions
Synonyms
Xrefs
Relations
Species
It has a single endpoint /api/lookup/<curie> that gives back JSON.
Here are a few examples:
| CURIE | Description |
|---|---|
| DOID:14330 | 🟢 exact |
| doid:14330 | 🟢 capitalization variant |
| DO:14330 | 🟢 synonym identified in metaregistry |
| GO:0000501 | 🟢 secondary identifier mapped |
| GO:GO:0000501 | 🟢 banana problem mapped |
| apo:0000155 | 🟡 able to look up name, but prefix is not listed on Identifiers.org |
| wikidata:Q11085 | 🟡 able to generate Identifiers.org link, but name unavailable |
| DOID:00000 | 🔴 valid prefix, but invalid identifier |
| NNN:00000 | 🔴 invalid prefix |