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.

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51.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-03 · rubric v0.18.2

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1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Genomics DNA Sequencing Life Sciences Bioinformatics Multiomics Laboratory Scientific Instruments Cloud Storage Biotechnology

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scored 2026-09-03 · rubric v0.18.2

Composite quality — 51.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.4 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 5

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MCP Servers 1

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Scopes 1

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AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 5

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GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

HelpCenter

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

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Forge

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Source (apis.yml)

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.
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
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: '0.23'
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/

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