Colossal Biosciences

Colossal Biosciences is a Dallas, Texas based de-extinction and species-preservation biotechnology company founded in 2021 by Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church. It applies ancient-DNA sequencing, comparative genomics, CRISPR multiplex genome editing, cloning and artificial-womb research to restoring extinct keystone species — the woolly mammoth, thylacine, dodo, moa, dire wolf and blue buck among them — and to conserving critically endangered living species. Colossal spun out the computational life-sciences platform Form Bio, runs the non-profit Colossal Foundation, and publishes its research code through the colossal-compsci GitHub organization. Colossal publishes no product or developer API; the machine-readable surface on colossal.com is the WordPress REST API (wp/v2) that serves the company newsroom, pages, media and site search as JSON, plus a WordPress MCP Adapter endpoint that is present but authentication-gated.

Colossal Biosciences is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Genomics, Life Sciences, and Conservation.

Colossal Biosciences’ developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, signup flow, and 22 more developer resources.

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21.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Heartbeat 68/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Biotechnology Genomics Life Sciences ConservationDe-ExtinctionSynthetic Biology Research

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 21.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.4 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 1.7 — up to +24.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 25.6 — up to +14.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Chemistry and Materials (chemical data depositors, materials-data APIs)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Colossal Biosciences MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)

A Model Context Protocol server endpoint advertised in the colossal.com WordPress REST route index under the "mcp" namespace and served at /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-serve...

Colossal Biosciences Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Colossal Biosciences website at colossal.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site surf...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Colossal Biosciences MCP Server

Remote MCP server at colossal.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Read the Colossal Biosciences newsroom

AGENT SKILL

Search colossal.com and resolve results

AGENT SKILL

Browse Colossal species pages and media

AGENT SKILL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Colossal Biosciences Content Overlay

9 actions · update · colossal-biosciences-content-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Colossal Biosciences Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Colossal Biosciences Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Colossal Biosciences Agentic Access

67 operations · 44 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

Lifecycle

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogRSS

Careers

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Technology

Research

Podcast

Foundation

Source (apis.yml)

aid: colossal-biosciences
name: Colossal Biosciences
description: Colossal Biosciences is a Dallas, Texas based de-extinction and species-preservation biotechnology company founded
  in 2021 by Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church. It applies ancient-DNA sequencing, comparative genomics, CRISPR
  multiplex genome editing, cloning and artificial-womb research to restoring extinct keystone species — the woolly mammoth,
  thylacine, dodo, moa, dire wolf and blue buck among them — and to conserving critically endangered living species. Colossal
  spun out the computational life-sciences platform Form Bio, runs the non-profit Colossal Foundation, and publishes its research
  code through the colossal-compsci GitHub organization. Colossal publishes no product or developer API; the machine-readable
  surface on colossal.com is the WordPress REST API (wp/v2) that serves the company newsroom, pages, media and site search
  as JSON, plus a WordPress MCP Adapter endpoint that is present but authentication-gated.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/colossal-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://colossal.com/wp-content/uploads/Colossal_BrandingRegistered_Logo_Icon_RGB_Wht-1.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Genomics
- Life Sciences
- Conservation
- De-Extinction
- Synthetic Biology
- Research
apis:
- aid: colossal-biosciences:mcp
  name: Colossal Biosciences MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter)
  description: 'A Model Context Protocol server endpoint advertised in the colossal.com WordPress REST route index under the
    "mcp" namespace and served at /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server. The endpoint is live but authentication-gated:
    an anonymous JSON-RPC tools/list returns HTTP 401 rest_forbidden, as does the companion wp-abilities/v1 abilities registry,
    so the published tool set could not be enumerated.'
  humanURL: https://colossal.com/wp-json/mcp
  baseURL: https://colossal.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/colossal-biosciences-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/colossal-biosciences-tool-crosswalk.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: mcp-plugin
- aid: colossal-biosciences:colossal-com-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Colossal Biosciences Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Colossal Biosciences website at colossal.com: the route index
    of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://colossal.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://colossal.com/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/colossal-biosciences-content-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/colossal-biosciences-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/colossal-biosciences-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/colossal-biosciences-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://colossal.com/
- type: About
  url: https://colossal.com/company/
- type: Blog
  url: https://colossal.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://colossal.com/feed/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://colossal.com/newsletter/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://colossal.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://colossal.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Careers
  url: https://colossal.com/careers/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/colossal-compsci
- type: Technology
  url: https://colossal.com/technology/
- type: Research
  url: https://colossal.com/labs/
- type: Podcast
  url: https://colossal.com/podcast/
- type: Foundation
  url: https://colossalfoundation.org/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/colossal-biosciences-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/colossal-biosciences-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/colossal-biosciences-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/colossal-biosciences-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/colossal-biosciences-lifecycle.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/colossal-biosciences-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/colossal-biosciences-problem-types.yml
x-tags-removed:
- Content

Colossal Biosciences API — frequently asked questions

Does Colossal Biosciences have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Colossal Biosciences, including Colossal Biosciences MCP Server (WordPress MCP Adapter) and Colossal Biosciences Website (WordPress REST).

How do I authenticate with the Colossal Biosciences API?

Colossal Biosciences documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Colossal Biosciences Authentication.

Does Colossal Biosciences have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Colossal Biosciences: Remote MCP server at colossal.com over HTTP.

Is the Colossal Biosciences API ready for AI agents?

Colossal Biosciences has a Kin Score of 21.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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