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.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 00:32Z· 15370msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 15370ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "biotoolsID": {
      "description": "The unique Bio.tools identifier for the tool. Use lowercase. Examples: 'samtools', 'blast', 'bwa', 'gatk', 'star'. Find IDs using BioTools_search.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "format": {
      "default": "json",
      "description": "Response format. Must be 'json'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "biotoolsID"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default BioTools Get Tool call

input

{
  "biotoolsID": ""
}

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

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