Identifiers.org is an established resolving system that enables the referencing of data for the scientific community, with a current focus on the Life Sciences domain.

Prefix

miriam

Alternative Prefixes

identifiers.namespace

Keywords

biochemistry biomedical science life science

Links

Homepage

Contact

Nicolas Le Novère   0000-0002-6309-7327

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Identifiers.org namespace should match this regular expression:
^[0-9a-z_:\.-]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

pubmed   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Identifiers.org namespace should match this regular expression:
^miriam:[0-9a-z_:\.-]+$

Example CURIE

miriam:pubmed

Publications

• 2011 Identifiers.org and MIRIAM Registry: community resources to provide persistent identification
• 2007 MIRIAM Resources: tools to generate and resolve robust cross-references in Systems Biology
• 2005 Minimum information requested in the annotation of biochemical models (MIRIAM)

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource 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 pubmed is used to demonstrate the providers available for Identifiers.org namespace. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.