Cortexa research tool·genomics·biosamples

BioSamples Search

Search the EBI BioSamples database by text query across 60+ million biological samples. Returns matching samples with accessions, names, organisms, and key characteristics. Useful for finding source material metadata for sequencing, proteomics, and other experiments. Example: searching 'breast cancer' returns thousands of tumor samples with tissue/disease annotations.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 1534msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 1534ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum results to return (1-50, default 10).",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "page": {
      "description": "Page number (0-indexed, default 0).",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Free-text search query. Examples: 'breast cancer', 'liver tissue', 'CRISPR screen', 'Mus musculus brain'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default BioSamples Search call

public-safeinput

{
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Expected response keys: success

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

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_BioSamples_search
Tool name: BioSamples_search
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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