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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.

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Schema

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

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JSON · 17 lines · 431 chars

Examples (1)

Default BioTools Get Tool call

input
JSON · 4 lines · 50 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
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