Cortexa research tool·genomics·biosamples

BioSamples Get Sample

Get detailed metadata for a specific biological sample from the EBI BioSamples database by accession. Returns sample name, organism, tissue, disease, experimental context, and links to associated data archives (ENA, ArrayExpress, EVA). BioSamples contains 60+ million samples from all major sequence and functional genomics archives. Example: SAMEA104228123 returns a metagenomic sample from the Qiita microbiome project.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 112msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 112ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "accession": {
      "description": "BioSamples accession. Formats: SAMEA* (EBI), SAMN* (NCBI), SAMD* (DDBJ). Examples: 'SAMEA104228123', 'SAMD00000603'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "accession"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default BioSamples Get Sample call

public-safeinput

{
  "accession": "P38398"
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_BioSamples_get_sample
Tool name: BioSamples_get_sample
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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