title: Updates to BioSamples database at European Bioinformatics Institute.
abstract: The BioSamples database at the EBI (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples) provides an integration point for BioSamples information between technology specific databases at the EBI, projects such as ENCODE and reference collections such as cell lines. The database delivers a unified query interface and API to query sample information across EBI's databases and provides links back to assay databases. Sample groups are used to manage related samples, e.g. those from an experimental submission, or a single reference collection. Infrastructural improvements include a new user interface with ontological and key word queries, a new query API, a new data submission API, complete RDF data download and a supporting SPARQL endpoint, accessioning at the point of submission to the European Nucleotide Archive and European Genotype Phenotype Archives and improved query response times.
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Faulconbridge
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burdett
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brandizi
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gostev
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Drashtti
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vasant
authors.forename: Ugis
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sarkans
authors.forename: Alvis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brazma
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Parkinson
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D018511:Systems Integration