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 |