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

Prefix

bioregistry

Keywords

biocuration bioinformatics cheminformatics computational biology computational chemistry life science registry

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage Repository @bioregistry@fosstodon.org Part of bioregistry

Publications

2022 Unifying the Identification of Biomedical Entities with the Bioregistry

2022 Unifying the identification of biomedical entities with the Bioregistry

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique 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

Contact

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

Identifier Space Owner

RWTH Aachen University Partnered

Contributor

creator Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection (6)

PUNCH4NFDI Collection NFDI4BIOIMAGE Collection NFDI4Objects Collection NFDI4Microbiota Collection Ontologies4Chem 2026 WikiPathways Resources

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

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.