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BioTools Search

Search the ELIXIR Bio.tools registry for bioinformatics software tools, databases, and web services. Bio.tools is the comprehensive registry of bioinformatics resources maintained by ELIXIR, containing 30,000+ entries. Returns tool names, descriptions, types, topics, and homepages. Use this to find software for specific bioinformatics tasks (e.g., 'sequence alignment', 'variant calling', 'protein structure prediction'). Example: search 'RNA-seq' to find RNA sequencing analysis tools.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 115msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 115ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "format": {
      "default": "json",
      "description": "Response format. Must be 'json'.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "page": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "Page number for paginated results (1-based). Default: 1.",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "q": {
      "description": "Free-text search query. Searches across tool names, descriptions, and topics. Examples: 'blast', 'RNA-seq analysis', 'protein folding', 'variant calling', 'metagenomics'.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "size": {
      "default": 10,
      "description": "Number of results per page (1-50). Default: 10.",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default BioTools Search call

public-safeinput

{
  "page": 1,
  "q": "",
  "size": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

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

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_BioTools_search
Tool name: BioTools_search
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

BioTools Search

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 115msCortexa

Schema

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

{ "properties": { "format": { "default": "json", "description": "Response format. Must be 'json'.", "type": "string" }, "page": { "default": 1, "description": "Page number for paginated results (1-based). Default: 1.", "type": "integer" }, "q": { "description": "Free-text search query. Searches across tool names, descriptions, and topics. Examples: 'blast', 'RNA-seq analysis', 'protein folding', 'variant calling', 'metagenomics'.", "type": "string" }, "size": { "default": 10, "description": "Number of results per page (1-50). Default: 10.", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "q" ], "type": "object" }