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 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Execution Service API, Instrument Service API, Run Service API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Genomics, DNA Sequencing, Life Sciences, and Bioinformatics.

The Element Biosciences catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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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50.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 4 Agent Skills

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

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Composite quality — 50.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.4 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

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 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 58.8 — up to +10.3 composite points

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IVD, Diagnostics and Surgical Devices (FDA / EU regulated device makers)	undeclared	-	-	-
GA4GH Genomics Standards (htsget, DRS, TES, WES, Beacon, Passports)	undeclared	-	-	-
US NPI Health Provider Registry (CMS NPPES)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

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...

Element Biosciences Auth Service API

AuthService reports information about the API key making the request.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Element Biosciences Cloud Auth Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Element Biosciences Cloud Execution Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Element Biosciences Cloud Instrument Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Element Biosciences Cloud Run Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Element Biosciences Cloud Storage Connection Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 4

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

Audit what an ElemBio Cloud API key can reach

AGENT SKILL

Find a completed run and download its files

AGENT SKILL

Monitor the Element Biosciences sequencing fleet

AGENT SKILL

Triage a failed ElemBio Cloud analysis execution

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Element Biosciences API Rules

65 rules · 57 errors 5 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

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.

Element Biosciences Cloud Api Overlay

11 actions · update · element-biosciences-cloud-api-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

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

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

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

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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

Overlay

Forge

Forge

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: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
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-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/
- aid: element-biosciences:element-biosciences-auth-service-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:
  - Auth Service
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/element-biosciences-auth-service-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: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/element-biosciences-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- 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/

Element Biosciences API — frequently asked questions

Does Element Biosciences have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Element Biosciences, including Element Biosciences Execution Service API, Element Biosciences Instrument Service API and Element Biosciences Run Service API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Element Biosciences API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Element Biosciences, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Element Biosciences API?

Element Biosciences uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Element Biosciences Authentication.

Is the Element Biosciences API ready for AI agents?

Element Biosciences has a Kin Score of 50.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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