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Element Biosciences

Element Biosciences is a San Diego based life-sciences instrumentation company that builds benchtop DNA sequencing and multiomics systems — the AVITI, AVITI LT, AVITI24 and VITARI platforms — around its proprietary Avidite Base Chemistry (ABC), which decouples signal generation from nucleotide incorporation to deliver high-accuracy base calling at lower cost than conventional sequencing-by-synthesis. Instrument output is managed through ElemBio Cloud, the company's analysis and data-management platform, which runs bioinformatics workflows such as Bases2Fastq and Cells2Stats and streams run data into customer-owned cloud storage connections. ElemBio Cloud exposes a public, versioned REST API — the Element Biosciences Cloud API — plus a first-party cross-platform CLI, giving labs programmatic access to sequencing and multiomics runs, workflow executions, registered instruments, storage connections and the files those resources produce, for dashboards, fleet monitoring, LIMS read-back and custom automation.

Element Biosciences publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Auth Service API, Execution Service API, Instrument Service API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Genomics, DNA Sequencing, Life Sciences, and Bioinformatics.

Element Biosciences’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, changelog, and 26 more developer resources.

49.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-12 · rubric v0.11.0
5 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyGenomicsDNA SequencingLife SciencesBioinformaticsMultiomicsLaboratoryScientific InstrumentsCloud StorageBiotechnology

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scored 2026-08-12 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 49.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.3 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 17
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 17
Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11
Governance 1.2 / 10
Discoverability 6.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 7.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 5

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

Element Biosciences Auth Service API

AuthService reports information about the API key making the request.

Element Biosciences Execution Service API

ExecutionService provides access to workflow executions — runs of a bioinformatics workflow that process instrument data. Listing and reading execution metadata requires the "ex...

Element Biosciences Instrument Service API

InstrumentService provides access to instruments registered to the authenticated tenant. Requires the "instruments:read" scope.

Element Biosciences Run Service API

RunService provides access to instrument runs, both sequencing and multiomics. Listing and reading run metadata requires the "runs:read" scope; listing run files and obtaining d...

Element Biosciences Storage Connection Service API

StorageConnectionService provides access to storage connections: their metadata (requires the "storage:read" scope) and the files within them (ListFiles / GetDownloadCredentials...

MCP Servers 1

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

Security Posture 2

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

Element Biosciences Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Element Biosciences Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Element Biosciences Scopes

12 scopes

12 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Element Biosciences Agentic Access

16 operations

16 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: element-biosciences
name: Element Biosciences
description: Element Biosciences is a San Diego based life-sciences instrumentation company that builds benchtop DNA sequencing
  and multiomics systems — the AVITI, AVITI LT, AVITI24 and VITARI platforms — around its proprietary Avidite Base Chemistry
  (ABC), which decouples signal generation from nucleotide incorporation to deliver high-accuracy base calling at lower cost
  than conventional sequencing-by-synthesis. Instrument output is managed through ElemBio Cloud, the company's analysis and
  data-management platform, which runs bioinformatics workflows such as Bases2Fastq and Cells2Stats and streams run data into
  customer-owned cloud storage connections. ElemBio Cloud exposes a public, versioned REST API — the Element Biosciences Cloud
  API — plus a first-party cross-platform CLI, giving labs programmatic access to sequencing and multiomics runs, workflow
  executions, registered instruments, storage connections and the files those resources produce, for dashboards, fleet monitoring,
  LIMS read-back and custom automation.
image: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/hubfs/Element%20Biosciences%202025/Image/Hero_Home_Logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/element-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Genomics
- DNA Sequencing
- Life Sciences
- Bioinformatics
- Multiomics
- Laboratory
- Scientific Instruments
- Cloud Storage
- Biotechnology
apis:
- aid: element-biosciences:element-biosciences-authservice-api
  name: Element Biosciences Auth Service API
  description: AuthService reports information about the API key making the request.
  humanURL: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://cloud-api.usw2.elembio.io
  tags:
  - AuthService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/element-biosciences-authservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
- aid: element-biosciences:element-biosciences-executionservice-api
  name: Element Biosciences Execution Service API
  description: "ExecutionService provides access to workflow executions — runs of a\n bioinformatics workflow that process\
    \ instrument data. Listing and reading\n execution metadata requires the \"executions:read\" scope; listing files and\n\
    \ obtaining download credentials requires \"executions:download\"; retrieving\n logs requires \"executions:logs\"."
  humanURL: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://cloud-api.usw2.elembio.io
  tags:
  - ExecutionService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/element-biosciences-executionservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
- aid: element-biosciences:element-biosciences-instrumentservice-api
  name: Element Biosciences Instrument Service API
  description: "InstrumentService provides access to instruments registered to the\n authenticated tenant. Requires the \"\
    instruments:read\" scope."
  humanURL: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://cloud-api.usw2.elembio.io
  tags:
  - InstrumentService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/element-biosciences-instrumentservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
- aid: element-biosciences:element-biosciences-runservice-api
  name: Element Biosciences Run Service API
  description: "RunService provides access to instrument runs, both sequencing and\n multiomics. Listing and reading run metadata\
    \ requires the \"runs:read\"\n scope; listing run files and obtaining download credentials requires the\n \"runs:download\"\
    \ scope."
  humanURL: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://cloud-api.usw2.elembio.io
  tags:
  - RunService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/element-biosciences-runservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
- aid: element-biosciences:element-biosciences-storageconnectionservice-api
  name: Element Biosciences Storage Connection Service API
  description: "StorageConnectionService provides access to storage connections: their\n metadata (requires the \"storage:read\"\
    \ scope) and the files within them\n (ListFiles / GetDownloadCredentials, which require the \"storage:download\"\n scope,\
    \ narrowable to a specific connection or path prefix). Connections that\n are deleted, disabled, or queued for deletion\
    \ are not returned."
  humanURL: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
  baseURL: https://cloud-api.usw2.elembio.io
  tags:
  - StorageConnectionService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/element-biosciences-storageconnectionservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/element-biosciences-cloud-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/element-biosciences-agentic-access.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/getting-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/contact
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/knowledge-base
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Elembio
- type: SignUp
  url: https://cloud.elembio.io/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.elementbiosciences.com/legal/privacy
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.elembio.io/developers/api/api-changelog/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/element-biosciences-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/element-biosciences-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/element-biosciences-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/element-biosciences-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/element-biosciences-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/element-biosciences-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/element-biosciences-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/element-biosciences-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/element-biosciences-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/element-biosciences-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/element-biosciences-cli.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/element-biosciences-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/element-biosciences-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/element-biosciences-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/element-biosciences-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/element-biosciences-domain-security.yml
- type: Forge
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/element-biosciences_stock/