Life Sciences
Industry-vertical index for the life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical landscape. Catalogs the major public and commercial APIs spanning clinical trial registries, drug and regulatory data, genomic reference data, electronic health record exchange, laboratory informatics systems, and bioinformatics pipeline platforms. The catalog is anchored by shared schemas for the three core records that recur across this domain: the clinical trial, the drug, and the gene.
Life Sciences publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Stats API, Studies API, and Version API. Tagged areas include Life Sciences, Biotech, Pharma, Healthcare, and Clinical Trials.
The Life Sciences catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
22 APIs
Life SciencesBiotechPharmaHealthcareClinical TrialsDrug InformationGenomicsBioinformaticsEHRFHIRLab Informatics
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
The European Medicines Agency's Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS) and the legacy EU Clinical Trials Register. CTIS is the single entry point for sponsors and regulators ...
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration project that exposes public FDA data via a single Elasticsearch-backed REST/JSON API. Covers adverse-event reports, drug labels, recalls, NDC...
The National Library of Medicine's authoritative source of FDA-approved Structured Product Labeling (SPL) for prescription and over-the-counter medications marketed in the Unite...
The National Library of Medicine's web service for accessing RxNorm, the standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs that links names of drugs across the major U.S. drug vocabu...
A commercial drug knowledge API providing curated pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interaction, indication, and identifier cross-walk data covering small molecules and ...
The set of nine programmatic interfaces (ESearch, EPost, ESummary, EFetch, ELink, EInfo, EGQuery, ESpell, ECitMatch) that provide unified access to all NCBI databases including ...
The European Bioinformatics Institute's REST/JSON interface to the Ensembl genome browser. Provides programmatic access to genomic annotation, variation, comparative genomics, r...
The University of California Santa Cruz Genome Browser's REST API for programmatic retrieval of assemblies, tracks, sequences, and annotations across the genomes hosted in the U...
The NIH/NLM database of relationships among human genomic variation and phenotype, with supporting evidence. Accessible programmatically via Entrez E-utilities and via a structu...
The NCBI Short Genetic Variations database, the canonical reference for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and small insertions/deletions in humans and other organisms. Acce...
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is HL7's standard for health care data exchange. The current normative version is R5, released March 2023. Defines roughly 150 ...
An open-spec authorization profile layered on top of FHIR that enables third-party clinical applications to launch within an EHR session with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect scopes s...
Benchling's REST API and webhook platform for its R&D cloud, exposing programmatic access to the Notebook (entries), Registry (registered entities, sequences, plasmids), Invento...
A cloud-native scientific data platform that harmonizes instrument and informatics data across pharma R&D. Exposes REST APIs and SDKs for ingesting, querying, and integrating la...
Sapio Sciences' platform API providing programmatic access to its Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Laboratory Information Management System, and Scientific Data Cloud, covering s...
DNAnexus is a cloud bioinformatics platform used by pharma, biotech, and research institutions to run genomic and biomedical compute workflows. Its platform API provides program...
A multi-cloud bioinformatics platform (now part of Velsera) offering hosted instances of the NCI Cancer Genomics Cloud and other cohort analysis environments. Provides REST APIs...
The open-source Galaxy bioinformatics workbench exposes a REST API for managing histories, datasets, workflows, tools, jobs, and users across community Galaxy servers and self-h...
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health publishes a suite of open REST specifications enabling federated access to genomic data and compute. Includes htsget (sequencing read...
The Stats API from Life Sciences — 1 operation(s) for stats.
The Studies API from Life Sciences — 3 operation(s) for studies.
The Version API from Life Sciences — 1 operation(s) for version.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
aid: life-sciences
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- Life Sciences
- Biotech
- Pharma
- Healthcare
- Clinical Trials
- Drug Information
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- EHR
- FHIR
- Lab Informatics
description: 'Industry-vertical index for the life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical landscape. Catalogs the major
public and commercial APIs spanning clinical trial registries, drug and regulatory data, genomic reference data, electronic
health record exchange, laboratory informatics systems, and bioinformatics pipeline platforms. The catalog is anchored by
shared schemas for the three core records that recur across this domain: the clinical trial, the drug, and the gene.'
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- name: EU Clinical Trials Register / CTIS
description: The European Medicines Agency's Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS) and the legacy EU Clinical Trials
Register. CTIS is the single entry point for sponsors and regulators across the EU/EEA to submit and supervise clinical
trials under Regulation (EU) No 536/2014. Public lookup is offered through a web portal; bulk and integration interfaces
are not openly published as REST APIs.
humanURL: https://euclinicaltrials.eu/
baseURL: https://euclinicaltrials.eu/ctis-public/
tags:
- Clinical Trials
- EU
- EMA
- Regulator
- CTIS
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://euclinicaltrials.eu/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/research-development/clinical-trials-human-medicines/clinical-trials-information-system
title: EMA CTIS overview
- type: HumanInterface
url: https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/
title: Legacy EU Clinical Trials Register
- name: openFDA
description: A U.S. Food and Drug Administration project that exposes public FDA data via a single Elasticsearch-backed
REST/JSON API. Covers adverse-event reports, drug labels, recalls, NDC directory, device 510(k) and adverse events, food
enforcement, tobacco problem reports, and animal/vet adverse events.
humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/
baseURL: https://api.fda.gov/
tags:
- FDA
- Drug
- Device
- Food
- Adverse Events
- Regulator
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/drug/
title: Drug endpoints
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/device/
title: Device endpoints
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/food/
title: Food endpoints
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/FDA/openfda
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/drug-schema.json
title: Drug Schema
- type: Examples
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/examples/drug-example.json
title: Drug Example
- name: DailyMed
description: The National Library of Medicine's authoritative source of FDA-approved Structured Product Labeling (SPL) for
prescription and over-the-counter medications marketed in the United States. Exposes a REST/JSON web services API for
searching and retrieving SPL documents by SET ID, NDC, RxCUI, and other identifiers.
humanURL: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/
baseURL: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/
tags:
- Drug Information
- Labeling
- SPL
- NLM
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/app-support-web-services.cfm
title: DailyMed Web Services
- name: RxNorm API
description: The National Library of Medicine's web service for accessing RxNorm, the standardized nomenclature for clinical
drugs that links names of drugs across the major U.S. drug vocabularies. Supports name-to-RxCUI resolution, NDC lookup,
relationship traversal, interaction discovery via RxNav, and approximate matching.
humanURL: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/RxNormAPIs.html
baseURL: https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/REST/
tags:
- Drug Information
- Terminology
- NLM
- RxNorm
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/RxNormAPIs.html
- type: Documentation
url: https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/InteractionAPIs.html
title: Interaction API
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/drug-schema.json
title: Drug Schema
- name: DrugBank API
description: A commercial drug knowledge API providing curated pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interaction, indication,
and identifier cross-walk data covering small molecules and biologics. Used by clinical decision support, electronic prescribing,
and pharmacy systems.
humanURL: https://docs.drugbank.com/v1/
baseURL: https://api.drugbankplus.com/v1/
tags:
- Drug Information
- Pharmacology
- Interactions
- Commercial
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.drugbank.com/v1/
- type: Documentation
url: https://go.drugbank.com/
title: DrugBank Online
- name: NCBI Entrez E-utilities
description: The set of nine programmatic interfaces (ESearch, EPost, ESummary, EFetch, ELink, EInfo, EGQuery, ESpell, ECitMatch)
that provide unified access to all NCBI databases including PubMed, Gene, Genome, Nucleotide, Protein, ClinVar, dbSNP,
dbGaP, BioProject, BioSample, GEO, and Taxonomy.
humanURL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/
baseURL: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/
tags:
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- NCBI
- PubMed
- Reference Data
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/
title: A General Introduction to the E-utilities
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/gene-schema.json
title: Gene Schema
- name: Ensembl REST API
description: The European Bioinformatics Institute's REST/JSON interface to the Ensembl genome browser. Provides programmatic
access to genomic annotation, variation, comparative genomics, regulatory data, the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP), and
GA4GH-compatible variation endpoints across vertebrate, invertebrate, plant, and fungal genomes.
humanURL: https://rest.ensembl.org/
baseURL: https://rest.ensembl.org/
tags:
- Genomics
- Variation
- VEP
- EBI
- GA4GH
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://rest.ensembl.org/
- type: Documentation
url: https://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/vep_hgvs_get
title: VEP endpoints
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/gene-schema.json
title: Gene Schema
- type: Examples
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/examples/gene-example.json
title: Gene Example
- name: UCSC Genome Browser REST API
description: The University of California Santa Cruz Genome Browser's REST API for programmatic retrieval of assemblies,
tracks, sequences, and annotations across the genomes hosted in the UCSC Browser, including human (hg19, hg38, T2T-CHM13),
mouse, and many other species.
humanURL: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/api.html
baseURL: https://api.genome.ucsc.edu/
tags:
- Genomics
- Reference Genome
- UCSC
- Tracks
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/api.html
- name: ClinVar (via E-utilities)
description: The NIH/NLM database of relationships among human genomic variation and phenotype, with supporting evidence.
Accessible programmatically via Entrez E-utilities and via a structured FTP feed of XML/JSON variant submissions.
humanURL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/
baseURL: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/
tags:
- Variation
- Clinical Genomics
- NCBI
- ClinVar
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/docs/maintenance_use/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/docs/linking/
title: Linking to ClinVar
- name: dbSNP (via E-utilities)
description: The NCBI Short Genetic Variations database, the canonical reference for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
and small insertions/deletions in humans and other organisms. Accessed via Entrez E-utilities using the `snp` database.
humanURL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/
baseURL: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/
tags:
- Variation
- SNP
- NCBI
- dbSNP
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/docs/
- name: HL7 FHIR
description: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is HL7's standard for health care data exchange. The current
normative version is R5, released March 2023. Defines roughly 150 resource types covering administration, clinical care,
diagnostics, medications, workflow, financial, and foundation domains, exchanged over REST, messaging, or document paradigms.
humanURL: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
baseURL: https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/
tags:
- FHIR
- HL7
- EHR
- Healthcare Interoperability
- Standard
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
- type: Specification
url: https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/
title: FHIR R5 specification
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/fhir.schema.json.zip
title: FHIR JSON Schema (official)
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/HL7/fhir
- name: SMART on FHIR
description: An open-spec authorization profile layered on top of FHIR that enables third-party clinical applications to
launch within an EHR session with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect scopes scoped to FHIR resources.
humanURL: https://docs.smarthealthit.org/
baseURL: https://docs.smarthealthit.org/
tags:
- FHIR
- SMART
- OAuth
- EHR
- Standard
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.smarthealthit.org/
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/smart-on-fhir
- name: Benchling Developer Platform
description: Benchling's REST API and webhook platform for its R&D cloud, exposing programmatic access to the Notebook (entries),
Registry (registered entities, sequences, plasmids), Inventory (boxes, plates, locations), Requests, Results, Schemas,
and Projects domains used across biotech R&D organizations.
humanURL: https://docs.benchling.com/
baseURL: https://{tenant}.benchling.com/api/v2/
tags:
- Lab Informatics
- ELN
- LIMS
- Biotech
- Commercial
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.benchling.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.benchling.com/reference
title: API reference
- name: TetraScience Data Platform
description: A cloud-native scientific data platform that harmonizes instrument and informatics data across pharma R&D.
Exposes REST APIs and SDKs for ingesting, querying, and integrating laboratory and computational data using the Intermediate
Data Schema (IDS).
humanURL: https://developers.tetrascience.com/
baseURL: https://developers.tetrascience.com/
tags:
- Lab Informatics
- Scientific Data
- IDS
- Commercial
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.tetrascience.com/
- name: Sapio Sciences ELN/LIMS API
description: Sapio Sciences' platform API providing programmatic access to its Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Laboratory
Information Management System, and Scientific Data Cloud, covering samples, experiments, assay results, and inventory.
humanURL: https://www.sapiosciences.com/
baseURL: https://www.sapiosciences.com/
tags:
- Lab Informatics
- ELN
- LIMS
- Commercial
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.sapiosciences.com/
- name: DNAnexus Platform API
description: DNAnexus is a cloud bioinformatics platform used by pharma, biotech, and research institutions to run genomic
and biomedical compute workflows. Its platform API provides programmatic access to projects, files, apps, workflows, jobs,
and analyses for petabyte-scale genomic data.
humanURL: https://documentation.dnanexus.com/
baseURL: https://api.dnanexus.com/
tags:
- Bioinformatics
- Cloud Compute
- Workflows
- Commercial
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://documentation.dnanexus.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://documentation.dnanexus.com/developer/api
title: Developer / API reference
- name: Seven Bridges (Velsera) Platform API
description: A multi-cloud bioinformatics platform (now part of Velsera) offering hosted instances of the NCI Cancer Genomics
Cloud and other cohort analysis environments. Provides REST APIs for projects, files, tasks, and apps written in CWL.
humanURL: https://docs.sevenbridges.com/
baseURL: https://api.sbgenomics.com/v2/
tags:
- Bioinformatics
- Cloud Compute
- CWL
- Cancer Genomics
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.sevenbridges.com/
- name: Galaxy Project API
description: The open-source Galaxy bioinformatics workbench exposes a REST API for managing histories, datasets, workflows,
tools, jobs, and users across community Galaxy servers and self-hosted installations.
humanURL: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/api_doc.html
baseURL: https://usegalaxy.org/api/
tags:
- Bioinformatics
- Open Source
- Workflows
- Galaxy
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/api_doc.html
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy
- name: GA4GH APIs (htsget, DRS, WES, TES, Beacon)
description: The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health publishes a suite of open REST specifications enabling federated
access to genomic data and compute. Includes htsget (sequencing reads), DRS (Data Repository Service), WES (Workflow Execution
Service), TES (Task Execution Service), and the Beacon variant-discovery protocol.
humanURL: https://www.ga4gh.org/genomic-data-toolkit/
baseURL: https://www.ga4gh.org/
tags:
- Genomics
- Standard
- GA4GH
- Federated
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ga4gh.org/genomic-data-toolkit/
- type: GitHubRepository
url: https://github.com/ga4gh
- type: Specification
url: https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/htsget.html
title: htsget specification
- type: Specification
url: https://ga4gh.github.io/beacon/
title: Beacon specification
- aid: life-sciences:life-sciences-stats-api
name: Life Sciences Stats API
description: The Stats API from Life Sciences — 1 operation(s) for stats.
humanURL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api
baseURL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/
tags:
- Stats
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/life-sciences-stats-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api
- type: Documentation
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/about-api
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/clinical-trial-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/examples/clinical-trial-example.json
- aid: life-sciences:life-sciences-studies-api
name: Life Sciences Studies API
description: The Studies API from Life Sciences — 3 operation(s) for studies.
humanURL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api
baseURL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/
tags:
- Studies
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/life-sciences-studies-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api
- type: Documentation
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/about-api
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/clinical-trial-schema.json
- type: Examples
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/examples/clinical-trial-example.json
- aid: life-sciences:life-sciences-version-api
name: Life Sciences Version API
description: The Version API from Life Sciences — 1 operation(s) for version.
humanURL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api
baseURL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/
tags:
- Version
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/life-sciences-version-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api
- type: Documentation
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/about-api
- type: JSONSchema
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- type: Examples
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/examples/clinical-trial-example.json
json-schemas:
- title: Clinical Trial
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- title: Drug
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/drug-schema.json
- title: Gene
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/gene-schema.json
json-ld:
- title: Life Sciences Context
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-ld/life-sciences-context.jsonld
vocabulary:
- title: Life Sciences Vocabulary
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/life-sciences-vocabulary.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: info@apievangelist.com
url: https://apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/life-sciences-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/life-sciences-domain-security.yml