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Cortexa research tool·genomics·biotools_registry
BioTools Get Tool
Get detailed information about a specific bioinformatics tool from the ELIXIR Bio.tools registry by its biotoolsID. Returns comprehensive metadata including name, description, homepage, tool type (command-line, web app, database, etc.), EDAM topics and operations, supported input/output data formats, programming languages, operating systems, license, documentation links, and credits. Use biotoolsID values discovered via BioTools_search. Example: 'samtools' for SAMtools, 'blast' for NCBI BLAST.
AvailableCortexa
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
JSON · 17 lines · 431 chars
Examples (1)
Default BioTools Get Tool call
input
JSON · 3 lines · 22 chars
Expected response keys: success
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_BioTools_get_tool
- Tool name
- BioTools_get_tool
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse, slow