Cortexa research tool·biomedical·ebi_taxonomy

EBITaxonomy Suggest

Get taxonomy name suggestions matching a partial query from EBI Taxonomy. Type-ahead style search that returns matching organism names and taxonomy IDs. Useful for finding the correct taxonomy ID when you only know part of the organism name. Example: 'human' suggests Homo sapiens (9606), human metagenome (646099), etc.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 1686msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 1686ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "description": "Partial organism name to get suggestions for. Examples: 'human', 'streptococc', 'salmo', 'candida'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default EBITaxonomy Suggest call

public-safeinput

{
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Expected response keys: success

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

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_EBITaxonomy_suggest
Tool name: EBITaxonomy_suggest
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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