The Bioregistry is integrative meta-registry of biological databases, ontologies, and nomenclatures that is backed by an open database.

Prefix
bioregistry
Links
Homepage Repository @bioregistry@fosstodon.org
Publications
2022 Unifying the Identification of Biomedical Entities with the Bioregistry
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier
bioregistry   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE
bioregistry:bioregistry
Metaregistry Bioregistry

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Wikidata (E) Wikidata Entity logo wikidata.entity Q109302681
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier bioregistry is used to demonstrate the providers available for Bioregistry. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/registry/bioregistry
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/bioregistry:bioregistry